kato111
Plastic
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2009
- Location
- philadelphia
I forgot to state that I am also looking for a jeweler lathe and tools as well as watchmaker lathe. Thanks
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...Larry - do clapped-out watchmakers lathes become 'jewelers' lathes at tool dealers?...
Also, if you're serious about clock/watch making, I wouldn't bother with Sherline - it's cheap hobbiest junk (in my opinion)
Rich
Could it be that watchmaker lathes are configured to cut threads while jeweler lathes are not?So what do you think is the difference between a watchmaker lathe and a jeweler lathe? I have been collecting them since 1958 and have never learned the difference.
Rich, it's a common reaction, but the Sherlines do remarkably well at the scale they're designed for. I set up several where I work to cut miniature leadscrews of over 200 TPI and about 0.04" diameter and they've been doing it well for a couple years now. My machinist friends along with vendors laughed until they discovered their CNC equipment couldn't make parts of sufficiently high quality for our needs, compared to the Sherlines. The secret is in the setup, the "secret sauce" as my boss likes to say. The other day I caught our machinist making a part on one of the Sherlines instead of our HLV. I gave him the obligatory grief and he admitted it was just better suited to what he was doing.
BTW, I agree that the OP should buy a fully equipped setup from an individual here, rather than eBay.
Todd, I can't give you the precise recipe on line, Conrad
Most jewelers lathes are pretty crude affairs.
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