L&r Ultasonic Vari-Matic Re-Furbished

[clockboy]

Picked up my L&R re-furbished machine yesterday. It now cleans without smoke from the motor is wired safely and cleans & drys watch parts a treat.See below before & after pics.

Highly recommend Graham Baxter @ http://www.delphelectronics.co.uk. Very knowledgable guy and has an interesting site to visit.

 

 

Edited October 4, 2014 by clockboy

[Geo]

Now that's a result, not only does it work but it looks the part as well. I like it!

[PadraicB]

Now that's a job well done. There seems to be a screw missing below the machine label, but sometimes these can't be salvageable I assume?

[clockboy]

The screw is missing because Graham found that the thread had been stripped. However does not effect anything.

[Mark]

Nice job. I have been to Grahams place, his workshop is really something :)

[bobm12]

Way to go clockboy, I'm happy to see all your efforts were fruitful and now you got a top of the line machine!

[clockboy]

Thanks chaps.

Stripped & cleaned a Seiko movement this afternoon parts came out absolutely spotless and dry. Should speed up matters if nothing else.

[rodabod]

Delph and Algo no longer support these machines. 
 

Does anyone here have any basket motor spares they can spare?

[RichardHarris123]

25 minutes ago, rodabod said:

Delph and Algo no longer support these machines. 
 

Does anyone here have any basket motor spares they can spare?

You might be better starting a new post as this is ten years old. 

[oldhippy]

That is one of the watch cleaning machines I had. It is by far the best you can get. I sure envy you. I see you also have the ultrasonic as well. You can time each jar the cycle you need. Nothing can touch these old machines.   

[JohnR725]

20 hours ago, oldhippy said:

That is one of the watch cleaning machines I had.

A classic well-built machine that seems to last almost forever. Which is why you see people still out there using them. When I was in school we had one it worked really well. Although the downfall would be people who forget to keep the fluid level at the right level and they burn the transducer out.

[oldhippy]

This is the other auto I had before this is japanese and I got excellent results with it it has ultrasonic in the cleaning jar. You can see the ultrasonic unit on the bottom of the jar on the left and to the right of the heater a spare one. 

 

Edited December 4, 2024 by oldhippy

[JohnR725]

6 hours ago, oldhippy said:

This is the other auto I had before this is japanese and I got excellent results with it it has ultrasonic in the cleaning jar. You can see the ultrasonic unit on the bottom of the jar on the left and to the right of the heater a spare one. 

Interesting about it being Japanese because? When I went back to one of the wostep reunions we were asking about the cleaning machine that the school had. Amusingly and I can't remember who made it I'm guessing Greiner we were told that it was a Japanese product and it was not reliable. What I find interesting is your machine employees similar ideas in other words square jars and the transducer goes into the bottom of the machine. The one that we had was all sealed up and would be appear to be a more modern or newer version perhaps.

I wonder what happened to the company in Japan that was making these? I was once trying to find the company because curious about their products and I couldn't find any Japanese watch cleaning machine makers. Also find it interesting in that a lot of the companies selling products don't actually make the product. This also applies to some timing machines where they were just branded even witschi allowed Elma to sell their machines with the Elma name on them in a different color the plastic case. In other words the Elma machines were blue in color. Also amusingly the Elma version of which he was usually slightly cheaper.