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Monday, July 31, 2023

Watchmaking: Machining a 0.6 mm Screw

 VIDEO HERE  (4:32 minutes)

12 comments:

  1. Wow!! I often wondered how screws this small were made. I'm sure there is an industrial process that may be quicker but this is a great video on the talent of this guy. Nice!!

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  2. Guy has some machining skills..damn.

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  3. My great uncle was a watchmaker, and did this kind of thing day-to-day. His bread and butter was repairing antique watches that required custom parts to be made. I consider myself well inclined, mechanically, but I don't see how he remembered how to put those pieces back together again!

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  4. I wondered too. I got my hands crushed TWICE (because once wasn't enough to teach me) in my teens and early 20's. I can't really write anymore, not so's anyone can read, but I type like Rain Man on meth. It makes me appreciate the guys who can do this stuff. There's a youtube channel "The nekkid watchmaker" that I love to watch. Stuff is soothing and fascinating, always mellows me right out.

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  5. If you want to go deep down that rabbit hole, check out Clickspring. You’ve been warned.

    https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring

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    1. Came here to say just that!! Upvoted 10X. Go watch him.

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  6. Thanks, Ken! You have superb content and I really enjoyed watching this. I’m an old “mechanical” watch wearer who’ll never be caught wearing a “smart watch”, so it was fascinating to me to see this short video. (Downside of older conventional watches is having to shell out the not insignificant $$$ every five years or so to have them properly cleaned and serviced.)

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  7. Needle Dick Big Fucker Tiny!

    Phil @ Bustednuckles.com

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  8. I had a great uncle who was a machinist. As a hobby he built a covered wagon that was about 16" long. It had every single part that the full size wagon had, except made to scale. he made a lot of screws that size or smaller for that project. He had one heck of a machine shop in the shop attached to his garage.

    I wish I had lived close enough to learn machining from him. Unfortunately he live about 200 miles away, so I only got to visit a couple of times a year. I did get to learn some basic machining skills a couple of jobs back while working for a small defense contractor that had an onsite basic machine shop. I sure miss having access to a machine shop.

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  9. Gotta say that while this is a good machinist, he's not unusual at all. Routine skill level for any journeyman. His comment about "high speed" was hilarious- the average hobby mill these days can hit 10-15K rpm (the real issue is surface feet per minute, which requires high rpm for small diameter parts, as any machinist knows).

    Having a machine shop, or access, is rare now but incredibly handy. As long as it includes a machinist, or one has the skills. It's not a trade -or hobby- for idiots. As I keep telling my apprentices, every one of those machines is a fatality waiting to happen. Pro tip: count the fingers on a machinist before you enter his shop, and act accordingly.

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  10. I love seeing this sort of stuff. So cool!

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  11. Meh, for a lesson, it is well done though. I as all set to be impressed until the threading die came out. I wanted to see the screw threads cut single point.

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