A blog about things that I have for sale.
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.
This one was in a bit of a state. Apart from being dirty, it just was worn out. Things needed to be engineered to get it back on it’s feet.
First thing to do was strip it down to it’s component parts and give it a good scrub.
Next step was to repair the cassette deck, this needed new belts, new head, new pinch roller and an idler.
The idler was the only par that I could not get, so I machined up one on the lathe.
Above – worn head.
Above, the cassette deck, a work in progress at this point.
Above – And here it is looking resplendent in the window of the shop, ready to go off to someone who will appreciate it as much as I do. 😀