Cincinnati Shaper

[dallen]

ordered a section of cable chain today to hopefully help corral the wires and cables on the router with. probably be couple of weeks before it shows up.

DA

[dallen]

lucked out and won this off of evil bay today I have another one that is the same model G.M. Wheeler so hoping I can get enough parts out of the two of them to get one working, the dial on this one is in excellent condition normally they are cracked pretty bad.

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DA

[Rasper]

I love it.

I have never owned a wristwatch. I have both my father's and my grandfather's pocket watches. My father's is a Waltham of a fairly recent vintage (maybe 1959) and my grandfather's is an old Hamilton. A large watch. I keep both in perfect order.

Richard

[dallen]

there are some watches which are over two hundred years old that still keep accurate time, They are really simple movements which with a little care and love will last for decades. the first pocket watches were more clock then watch because of the size due to the mechanism.

Anyway I like tinkering with them, will post some photos of this one when I receive it in a couple of days.

DA

[dallen]

received the watch movement today, disassembled it and found that the the escape wheel has a broken pivot and the pallet is missing one of the jewels, the mainspring had also been spun out so the eye on the end that hooks onto the arbor wasn't catching so the spring would not wind up like it was suppose to, all in all in pretty good shape, I'm a little puzzled about the date due to some of the things I found on the watch plates.

will get some photos of the damaged parts later this evening and post them here for all to see.

DA

[dallen]

heres a photo of the two parts that need to be changed before I can tell if the watch will run, the fork looking one is missing a jewel out of one side they fit into the teeth of the wheel that is shown beside it, these two parts are what control how fast the watch runs and gives them the tick tock sound

DA

[Rasper]

Dave,
There are watchmakers all over the US who specialize in old pocket watches. Not a lot of them, and they are in unpredictable places, but they exist. They have parts. I had one in California but he died. I haven't needed another one yet.

It's an obsession. Old watches. Much like the stuff we do. I was once a wooden boat builder. Talk about an obsession. Here is one of them; the smallest one:



Richard

[dallen]

your right there out there big problem is that they are getting farther and farther apart and harder to find. I know of one in Tulsa that is suppose to have some Elgin parts. I'm hoping that one of the movements that I have will match the parts in the above posted photo.

nice boat, and your right any thing can become an obsession if we let it. I like messing with the watches I guess because I always figured that if I took one apart I'd never get it back together. But I found out that if you can see the parts you can put it back together easier then a jig saw puzzle.

DA

[dallen]

after doing some checking of the movements that I have, I found that I had the pallet fork and escape wheel that I needed to replace the damaged parts in the above movement. So this morning seeing as how it was raining I broke out the mag visor and proceded to swap parts around and I now have a running 100+ year old watch movement to put in a case when I find one.

I took a photo and video but haven't gotten them off the camera yet.

DA

[mite5255]

Dave,
There are watchmakers all over the US who specialize in old pocket watches. Not a lot of them, and they are in unpredictable places, but they exist. They have parts. I had one in California but he died. I haven't needed another one yet.

It's an obsession. Old watches. Much like the stuff we do. I was once a wooden boat builder. Talk about an obsession. Here is one of them; the smallest one:



Richard

Wow Richard thats nice Do you have photos of other boats that you've built