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My guesses.. 1. wood chips for drying parts in after the final rinse. A bit of an archaic practice these days. 2. could be French chalk for brushing cleaned clock plates with.... or maybe diamantine powder for polishing.... 3. Blueing pan. Fill it with brass chips, place item to be blued on the chips and hold the pan over a spirit burner. 4. & 5. Pallet warmer for softening the shellac in order to adjust the pallet stones. -
By spectre6000 · Posted
Maybe not the best place for such a question... 21 jewels with the last 4 being cap jewels on either side of the escapement, but only the easily visible side of wheels 2 & 3. Does a one sided cap jewel setting provide much benefit? I get that they reduce friction by keeping the pivot on its tip rather than side, but if it can still shift away from the cap jewel since there isn't another to do the same job, is the pivot not then on its side in the jewel in pretty much any position other than DU? I'm sure it's just to get the jewel count up for marketing purposes, but still. My pre-coffee mind wants to know. -
White powder I don’t know- radium lume? The first bit of kit looks like the chips and wand for bluing screws and hands and such. what hold and control the heat perhaps…wand for holding over the flame How about borax flux for the powder? -
By RichardHarris123 · Posted
The white powder is cocaine, for when a repair is stressing you out. Hehe. As for the rest, no idea. -
Snagged a job lot of tools, and more than a few mysteries. First is a tin of what looks like chopped up cork, and the second is a jar of white powder. Any ideas? Is it old shellac? OK no idea what this is, it doesn't react to UV, and is very fine powder The below is for shellac application but what specifically? lots more to follow!
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