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Vintage Micrometer Stand Watch - Honegger Golay & Co - Switzerland | eBay
Closed at a price far beyond my budget.
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I have one of those!
These are beautifully over complex tools though.
Indeed. But what functions do they have over a more normal bench micrometer that warrant the extra levers and wheels?
It' what I'd call a comparative indicating mic. The mic is a Johansson, the barrel has an index wheel on it with 50 notches. So say I want to check a 2mm plug gage, I set the mic to 2mm, then positively index it like in pic 1. The arm that fits around the mic barrel is loose up to this point, now we press the lever, which brings the arm to its 0 position on the indicator sector, and it's tightened. Lever is released, index arm backed off. Now with the little knob to the bottom right, and a piece of string, you can open up the mic as much as 0.5mm over the initial setting, then release the string tension and the counter weight visible in the side pic rotates the mic barrel to bring the spindle in contact with the piece to be measured. So there is some advantage in that you don't touch the actual mic when measuring, as you use the string to operate it, and the mic pressure is governed by gravity. But a pretty (and pretty) Rube Goldberg way of seeking out microns.
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Hoo boy if you saw the rest of the shop you'd take that backBTW, kudos on your very clean and organized shop.
It's something to aspire to !
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