WWW Eterna sucked me in.

luiazazrambo · June 18, 2022

Custom made boxes for my watch crystals. Not 100% perfect, but it was my first try and apart from the base plywood it is made out of pallet wood again.

watchweasol · June 18, 2022

Hi Nice and tidy job you must have an in exhaustable sullpy of pallets.

luiazazrambo · June 19, 2022

14 hours ago, watchweasol said:

Hi Nice and tidy job you must have an in exhaustable sullpy of pallets.

Thank you. This very week I visited one of the recycling center with my pallet buster from Screwfix because I used it that much with heavyweight hardwood pallets that I had to buy another one, I straightened the old one. Beside of it there was a bucket full with used nails I pulled out of them, difficult to lift because of its weight. I have a trailer I load time to time with free pallets coming from FB marketplace. Some of them are only good for burning but some of them are really nice straight and clean, some of them are bulit to transfer heavy industrial equipment and they are hardwood. The crates are also hardwood and the wood they are made from usually have a nice texture. Of course the wood has the nail holes but it's easy to live with it, sometimes it even looks good.

jdm · June 19, 2022

19 hours ago, luiazazrambo said:

Custom made boxes for my watch crystals. Not 100% perfect, but it was my first try and apart from the base plywood it is made out of pallet wood again.

Loving your work and will try to imitate it ASAP. Luckly, beside an endless pallets supply I have a joiner nearby which I can coerce into planing and other operations that aren't very easy for a total amateur.

luiazazrambo · June 22, 2022

I always wanted one and I always knew that there is no space for it... I bought it anyway... so far I could not come up with a sensible idea as where to put it... Both of its locks are made in the USA maybe the whole desk was made there. One of its lock is not working, so today I became a locksmith too. If you close the top it locks all of the drawers, both sides and the middle one too. Very very nicely made.

Edited June 22, 2022 by luiazazrambo

watchweasol · June 22, 2022

When I was a kid my Father had one like that made of oak with all the pigeon holes drawers and roll top but time and use took its toll, it ended its dats as fire wood. shame it was a good desk

luiazazrambo · July 6, 2022

EB8420 finished casing it recently

This is a practice watch. I got a tray of EB8420 movements without balance wheel, a tray of EB8492 with balance wheel but without mainspring barrel and a box of new EB8420 dials. Now the balance complete is interchangeable or it is just a maybe because i could not set the beat to 0 ms as I already hit the balance cock and cannot move the little arm any more... maybe I need to play with the HS colet now. Anyway I purchased a tray of EB8420 too plus found a set of scrap hands in the scrap box. Unfortunately I have no dial rest and I dont know how to source it and where to find good looking hands. I tried to take apart the pushers to completely clean the case but the pusher screw glued or "locktited" in and when i tried to turn the screw i just broke it of... so I tried the other pusher and I broke that too... ok lets take another case all looked good for a while and then one button just fell off... i did not even touch it/push it.. the screw again was broken again at the same place, where it goes into the pusher.... two cases wasted... (dont think i can find pushers individually for this case/ cousins do not seem to have them) anyway it has a nice performance apart from the non 0 ms beat error. (as far as i remember it was around 0.5ms)

These are also ready a nice little Westclox and a Laco with Durowe 422. They are on a test run at the moment.

https://17jewels.info/movements/d/durowe/durowe-422/

Edited July 6, 2022 by luiazazrambo

luiazazrambo · September 27, 2022

Summer school brake has a disastrous effect on my watchmaking carrier. I am still recovering, but I managed to bring a Greiner Micromat back to life.

watchweasol · September 27, 2022

Nice old machines , what was the problem with it

luiazazrambo · September 27, 2022

Just now, watchweasol said:

Nice old machines , what was the problem with it

The screw of the back of the electric panel holding the microphone plug became loose and both wire soldered to the plug snapped as the plug could turn around and around. It was relatively easy to sort, but then it still did not work. I got a number of microphones coming with it, I picked up two of them to test the micromat and the micromat didnt do a thing with any of them, turned out that both "microphone" was faulty. I managed to sort one of them, but the sensor in the other one snapped into half. I got some sensors not equivalent to the original, but I am going to try to use one of them as a replacement. In the package I got a Vibograf too, but it is still in the attic. I might bring that one down too soon.

luiazazrambo · September 28, 2022

I brought my Greiner Vibrograf Record down from the attic. It would not print, already figured out that its switch is faulty but unfortunately it does not stop it working. It is always on. What is amazing is that I contacted Greiner and they sent me a Manual and a circuit diagram within an hour!!! Valves!

Record_Schaltplan.pdf Record_Manual_E.pdf

watchweasol · September 28, 2022

Hi they sound like a company with an ipmecable reputation and are intent on keeping it Well Done Greiner.

luiazazrambo · October 8, 2022

New toys.

Edited October 8, 2022 by luiazazrambo

AndyHull · October 8, 2022

Toys to make more toys. The best kind of toys.

Neverenoughwatches · October 8, 2022

On 6/18/2022 at 4:00 PM, luiazazrambo said:

Custom made boxes for my watch crystals. Not 100% perfect, but it was my first try and apart from the base plywood it is made out of pallet wood again.

Lol . A man after my own heart mate. Why buy it when you can make it how you want, you've even tongued the seperators in. I have the same chop saw somewhere.

On 6/19/2022 at 9:50 AM, luiazazrambo said:

Thank you. This very week I visited one of the recycling center with my pallet buster from Screwfix because I used it that much with heavyweight hardwood pallets that I had to buy another one, I straightened the old one. Beside of it there was a bucket full with used nails I pulled out of them, difficult to lift because of its weight. I have a trailer I load time to time with free pallets coming from FB marketplace. Some of them are only good for burning but some of them are really nice straight and clean, some of them are bulit to transfer heavy industrial equipment and they are hardwood. The crates are also hardwood and the wood they are made from usually have a nice texture. Of course the wood has the nail holes but it's easy to live with it, sometimes it even looks good.

Great for garden furniture and feature walls. Nice one Lui, i love to see recycling mate.

On 7/6/2022 at 6:35 PM, luiazazrambo said:

EB8420 finished casing it recently

This is a practice watch. I got a tray of EB8420 movements without balance wheel, a tray of EB8492 with balance wheel but without mainspring barrel and a box of new EB8420 dials. Now the balance complete is interchangeable or it is just a maybe because i could not set the beat to 0 ms as I already hit the balance cock and cannot move the little arm any more... maybe I need to play with the HS colet now. Anyway I purchased a tray of EB8420 too plus found a set of scrap hands in the scrap box. Unfortunately I have no dial rest and I dont know how to source it and where to find good looking hands. I tried to take apart the pushers to completely clean the case but the pusher screw glued or "locktited" in and when i tried to turn the screw i just broke it of... so I tried the other pusher and I broke that too... ok lets take another case all looked good for a while and then one button just fell off... i did not even touch it/push it.. the screw again was broken again at the same place, where it goes into the pusher.... two cases wasted... (dont think i can find pushers individually for this case/ cousins do not seem to have them) anyway it has a nice performance apart from the non 0 ms beat error. (as far as i remember it was around 0.5ms)

These are also ready a nice little Westclox and a Laco with Durowe 422. They are on a test run at the moment.

https://17jewels.info/movements/d/durowe/durowe-422/

Initially missed these posts.great work lui. I wouldn't have worried about the 0.5 beat error, acceptable for this age and movement.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Neverenoughwatches

luiazazrambo · October 8, 2022

My last toy I received with the same shipment:

I took a picture of the cover, content and the introduction of the book I bought in the British museum. Have a look at it, an incredible collection with more than 4500+ pieces a lot of them with great importance. (the pages didnt fit into my scanner, hopefully readable)

Edited October 8, 2022 by luiazazrambo

watchweasol · October 8, 2022

Hi Hector those arn't tools they are pieces of art absolutly lovley to look at, I would have them on display for others to appreciate. wheel cutter and Jacot brilliant. love them.

luiazazrambo · October 13, 2022

It works now! Phew!

Edited October 13, 2022 by luiazazrambo

luiazazrambo · November 17, 2022

Not sure if anyone wants it, but this is how the old like BCL fancy shaped crystals looked like in the past, this table is based on the original print printed in April 1981, 300 variations, 11 more compared it to August 1972. If you want the excel/ods file message me and I send it to you.

Edited November 17, 2022 by luiazazrambo

luiazazrambo · November 22, 2022

luiazazrambo · December 25, 2022

This is Greiner Record Time Machine Nr2 after a little bit of clean up & lubrication:

Happy holidays to you All.

luiazazrambo · January 14, 2023

Sony TC-K61

Got this with a Thorens TD 160 record player together, unfortunately it did not do anything, it had watch issues. No lubrication at certain places or it had old lubrication acting as glue. So it was cleaned up and re-lubed with watch oil and molykote dx grease it was a bit tricky to take it apart but all functionality is restored. It did not play at all and there was no rewind or fast forward. With a pair of headphones I can enjoy 80s music again

Edited January 14, 2023 by luiazazrambo

luiazazrambo · January 15, 2023

One of my favorite activity is to reuse pallet wood, managed to do many thing out of them around the house and for the watch/clockmaker hobby, but this guy is on another level:

My plan was to make something like him and I more or less have the components for it however I came across of this and could not resist even though it was a bit pricey. Full with toys, including horological tools. And some withworth thread gauge for every day usage.