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There’s been quite a demand for black telephones of late. I’m not sure quite why, but I’ve got to go with the flow and repair and polish up some more.

Above – The usual condition they turn up in. After a full clean, polish and replacement of the broken parts, such as leads, dial mechanism parts, and then fitting a concussion diode and a REN dropper resistor, all is well again.

Above – Final touches like fitting a newer type microphone for better speech and a centre number card finish off the refurbishment.

We have lots of lovely telephones in stock, including trimphones and novelty telephones, so just give us a call, to see if we have what you need.

Just a quick post today, a basic strip, clean in the cleaning machine, rebuild and re-oil of this Geneva Swiss quartz watch, plus a new battery and then a timing setup.

Above – before the calibration. Nearly two seconds fast a day.

Above – after the calibration. Lovely, can’t get better than that.

This one came in for a half service and a clean up.

Sadly my camera decided to lose all of the pictures of the strip down, clean and rebuild. Which is a shame.

This watch is quite badly worn, as it had not been serviced in the thirty years since it’s purchase, so even after everything, it still only runs unevenly, which is a shame, but when I say unevenly, I’m talking about a fraction on a second every minute, as you can see from the timegrapher above. Overall, the gain or loss is zero seconds a day, which was all the customer wanted anyway.

Yes, the beat error is out, I can see that. 🙂 However the Rolex tool to adjust that out, is ridiculously expensive and the customer wanted it done for next to nothing.

Yes, now I can offer water resistance pressure testing in the little shop, now that I have the gadget below. Ask for details in the shop.

Hello again, and welcome back to the website.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the website got infected, and all things went a bit pear shaped.

So obviously, more content will be popped up here when it can be, in the meantime, Visit the little shop at-

27 New Street on the Barbican in Plymouth,

or you can get hold of me by e-mailing the web address.

In for a general service is a stack of Sony ES hi-fi separates. Very high-end quality equipment this.

Sony CDP-X55ES. Only the best of the best gets the ES logo.

Sony MDS-JA20ES. Well laid out structured/isolated sections. On a heavy chassis.

Sony TC-K950ES. Mu metal and copper clad sections in the Sony tape deck.

Finally, after damaging my original Marlin Casio W-400 watch whilst diving in a swimming pool, back in the 80s, I have now rebuilt this replacement out of brand-new old stock parts.

I don’t feel so guilty now somehow. If you want beautiful vintage rebuilt items, Try my little shop. Plug plug 27 New Street, Barbican, Plymouth.

I’ve just finished up cleaning and repairing a quantity of excellent Casio digital watches.

This includes multiples of, but is not limited to, Casio F-91W, Casio W-86, CasioW-163, CasioW-164 and CasioW-168.

Above – Casio F-91W.

Above – Casio W-163.

Above – Casio W-168.

Lots of new stock available in the shop.
As you can see from the new header photograph, and the pictures below, I have lots of new stock in the window at 27 new Street.

Come in and have a look.

A Belgian telephone. A customer came in and asked if I could rewire a telephone. I replied ‘yes, that’s fine’ then she pulled a somewhat bedraggled heavy Belgian telephone out of her bag.

It’s not something you see too often in the UK so I was not expecting that, however, she left it with me and I got to work.

Above – And here is the result of some careful polishing and rewiring/standardising for the UK phone network. It is all metal, apart from the handset, which is bakelite, so is a hefty little monster and it has a fold up brass handle to carry it around, very nice. All in all, quite a pretty little gadget.