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Mike's clock workshop

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fixit:
Good looking workshop !

i see you have a lot of 'smalldraw 'filing cabenets,   i managed to get one  the other day  'best thing ive got to date!!!! :ddb:



Steve

raynerd:
Nice workshop - what is the mill (?) in the far left of the first image?

Chris

Rick O Shea:

Hi Craynerd    Its a BCA Jig Borer, it has normal x and y movement but also has a rotary table built in so as to speak,  I believe it was taken from the Germans as war reperation in  1945 and I believe it  is based on a Wolf Jahn or Linenen machine it has 11 mm collets (which are a real pain to find). The mills are still for sale now called Sigma and are staggeringly expensive. Mine is fitted with a non standard 3 phase motor and a speed controller down to single phase which makes is very smooth. My friend has one to which he has fitted DRO  and  that is something else.   

Fixit,  I have quite a lot of the small drawer storage cabinets, I try and get them from Second hand office clearance companies.  New from Staples they are close to £100 which is silly money  but second hand they  seem to fetch £30-50 each  They are very handy  for storing all sorts of stuff. Thet are also vvery good for loosing all sorts of stuff, I know I have got one of those...... but I have no idea where it is.  Might be an age thing tho.       

andyf:
Hi Mike,

That's a nice setup! There never seems to be much swarf around a horologist's bench; it must be the nature of their work which keeps clockmakers so clean and tidy.

Those Bisley cabinets are really useful, but expensive as you say. Ikea do something similar for about £15 (I think), but it has 6 x 4" deep drawers like the grey one in your pic below.

To get a pic into your post, start composing the text, then open P'bucket in a separate browser window. Hover your cursor over the thumbnail image, whereupon four little boxes will drop down. Click within the bottom one, where the text starts "IMG". That will copy the code. Return to your text and paste (Control+V) it in where you want the pic to appear, on a line of its own and best with a blank line above and below. As you are composing, only the code will appear, but if you click on Preview and scroll up, you should see your pic in all its glory, like this:



Sometimes it can be good to reduce the size of the pic using the editing facility in P'bucket, saving the reduced image in place of the original, and then copying/pasting its code.

Why not try amending your original post to include the photos? Click on Modify and you can edit it.

Andy

Bernd:
Andy,

Thanks for that explanation to Mike on how to post a pic. Much appreicated.

Mike,

Nice workshop. My wife collects antique clocks. Must have over 100 by now. Not all working ofcourse.

Bernd

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