Just ran across this by YTb "algorithm", since I've followed a couple of clock/watch folks, mainly coming from the lathe/matching world...nice to see someone who cares about getting the job done right, first time, and appreciates fine equipment... Keep well, keep on keeping satisfied customers! Alles gute for 2023 and beyond! 🇨🇦🐻in🇫🇮&🇩🇪
I have no interest in clock making but I've always had a great interest in machinery, particularly small hand operated things for very specific purposes. Thanks for the video, I never knew such a thing existed.
Thank you for this video. Hmmmm.... Gotta admit some of those pivots are hard to get smooth in a lathe. It's a steep investment for a one woman shop. Mark Butterworth is the man to do business with.
He is! The only con about them, if you could call it such, is the high initial cost, but land sakes! They are built like a brick privy, and the people that make them need to eat too, and Mark has to have something for his own trouble importing them and selling them here, so we can't really scream about that! It's like paying the mechanic to put new rings in; sure it costs, but look at all the trouble it is to do! If you are a business write the cost off and if you aren't think of them as a jeep, they are unlikely to loose resale value, I just saw serial number 326 with God knows how many hundred thousand miles on it sell on fleabay for $1400. I guess I look at it this way: Some improvements pay for themselves in added revenue, others by improved quality of work, and still others by decreased workplace aggravation. I am finding that while this tool is sure to speed up my production and therefor increase my earning ability, it also contributes heavily to the second two categories too! I did a Gilbert kitchen clock scape wheel with it first thing, and oh! how happy I was to see that thing clean and ready to bush and assemble. It took about five minutes to do both pivots, and they were done in complete safety to the pivots and arbour. Chucking them in a lathe collet always makes me sweat like dynamite, because the wheel is right on the end at the front and the pinion in the same place on the back, so you're always chucking it on one pivot or the other, and it seems like even with a centre rest you break the %^$# pivot off in the collet just as you're finishing up! Cheers! Chaz
I thought about trying to make one, but if you factor in the emergency room when I slice my hand open and the materials that I ruined and all the work that ignore while I'm working on this, I figured I was ahead of the game sending Mr Butterworth the dough and buying one built by someone who knew what they were doing!
Thanks! I have a friend that's had one that drives off of a watchmaker's lathe that he's used since the mid nineties. Mine is brand spanking new and it's number 3368 so there ain't a real hell of a lot of them out there, but still the fact that there's almost 4000 of them around in so small a community as the clockmaking industry speaks well of them.
Just ran across this by YTb "algorithm", since I've followed a couple of clock/watch folks, mainly coming from the lathe/matching world...nice to see someone who cares about getting the job done right, first time, and appreciates fine equipment... Keep well, keep on keeping satisfied customers! Alles gute for 2023 and beyond! 🇨🇦🐻in🇫🇮&🇩🇪
Thank you! I have a few ideas for shop projects coming up.
I have no interest in clock making but I've always had a great interest in machinery, particularly small hand operated things for very specific purposes.
Thanks for the video, I never knew such a thing existed.
It's a real neat machine! I'm proud to have it, it won't replace a lathe by itself but it sure fills in a void!
Thank you for this video. Hmmmm.... Gotta admit some of those pivots are hard to get smooth in a lathe.
It's a steep investment for a one woman shop. Mark Butterworth is the man to do business with.
He is! The only con about them, if you could call it such, is the high initial cost, but land sakes! They are built like a brick privy, and the people that make them need to eat too, and Mark has to have something for his own trouble importing them and selling them here, so we can't really scream about that! It's like paying the mechanic to put new rings in; sure it costs, but look at all the trouble it is to do! If you are a business write the cost off and if you aren't think of them as a jeep, they are unlikely to loose resale value, I just saw serial number 326 with God knows how many hundred thousand miles on it sell on fleabay for $1400. I guess I look at it this way: Some improvements pay for themselves in added revenue, others by improved quality of work, and still others by decreased workplace aggravation. I am finding that while this tool is sure to speed up my production and therefor increase my earning ability, it also contributes heavily to the second two categories too! I did a Gilbert kitchen clock scape wheel with it first thing, and oh! how happy I was to see that thing clean and ready to bush and assemble. It took about five minutes to do both pivots, and they were done in complete safety to the pivots and arbour. Chucking them in a lathe collet always makes me sweat like dynamite, because the wheel is right on the end at the front and the pinion in the same place on the back, so you're always chucking it on one pivot or the other, and it seems like even with a centre rest you break the %^$# pivot off in the collet just as you're finishing up!
Cheers! Chaz
This looks like the sort of machine which (if you have the time & application) you might build your own version - obviously for personal use -
I thought about trying to make one, but if you factor in the emergency room when I slice my hand open and the materials that I ruined and all the work that ignore while I'm working on this, I figured I was ahead of the game sending Mr Butterworth the dough and buying one built by someone who knew what they were doing!
Hi Charles A great machine and a simple process to give exultant results.
Brilliant
Thank you!
That is very interesting mechanics. How long has this machine been around?
Thanks! I have a friend that's had one that drives off of a watchmaker's lathe that he's used since the mid nineties. Mine is brand spanking new and it's number 3368 so there ain't a real hell of a lot of them out there, but still the fact that there's almost 4000 of them around in so small a community as the clockmaking industry speaks well of them.
Says check with micrometer but used a vernier.
Doesn't look like any harm came of it.
Good Lord mate, please put your camera on a tripod.