Recent content by Fergie 307

I think the problem for watch or clock repairers is simply that it is quite labour intensive, and requires a considerable investment in tools. If you charge enough to make it viable to then you end up having to charge more than people are prepared to pay. If you take granny's old clock in an...

I can see how clock or watch repairs would be a nightmare, not least because it can be very difficult to really know what is wrong until you take the thing to bits. Often on old ones which haven't been used for years it's just dirt, and a good clean will get them going again. Even that can be a...

Big custom made one in 2mm stainless. Roughened the back with coarse abrasive disc then stuck on with solvent type no more nails. I wouldn't like to have to try and get it off !

I put a dolly sprint engine in my first chrome bumper 99. Lovely car with some simple but neat ideas, like the bottom of the doors wrapping over the sills so you don't get muck on your trousers. Then had a 99 turbo, how I wish I had kept it when you look at the price they fetch now.

I have the sheppach portable one, very good apart from the built in vice which is pretty useless. I use the Clark one mostly for accurate cutting of sheet.

Typically you are aiming for about 1-1.5m/sec blade speed as a ball park figure. Many wood saws will be operating at ten times that speed, or more.

I used a 12v 250W DC 9:1 reduction gearbox bike motor on a little Clark CBS190. Only thing I had to do was to make a new shaft for the gearbox output, so it had the same end as the original motor. I just made a completely new shaft in high tensile steel. Variable speed controller on the motor...

I would think a scroll saw would be hard work in 5mm, and very slow. I have recently modified an old Clark bandsaw for metal cutting. Substituted the original motor for a 12v DC one with a 9:1 reduction gear intended for a bicycle. So with a variable speed control on it I can get between 0.5 and...

If it was raining oxtail soup I would make damn sure my bowl was upside down :)

Have a Carlton Criterion, with the Golden Arrow set. The high end Raleigh bikes, including those used on the tour, were all made by Carlton at Ilkeston (the skunk works) By then also owned by TI, but kept separate from the main factory where Raleigh bikes were made at Nottingham. I was lucky...

Oh Jacob you slay me. Can't get the image out of my head now of the repair man on one side of the field flashing a signal to attract the clandestine folk with their broken toasters, brilliant :)

Me too, Triang with red "spokes" painted on the front wheel :)

Here is an example. Side panel from a 1920's Black Forest musical clock. The cases in these are nickel plated steel. Before and after a few hours in evaporust. The plating is intact.

Thanks, that sounds about right, no pun intended ! I will give them a try.

Looking for some help, maybe from the guitar makers here. I am repairing a 1920's Black Forest musical clock. Essentially a normal clock but with the addition of a drum and comb type musical box in the base which plays a tune on the hour. The case is metal but has a 3mm thick wooden panel...