05-20-2013, 07:34 AM
yesterday I watched Tornado's all day, the day before that I made the blue spring you see in the photo, for a clock movement that I acquired the other day.
its made from a short piece of band saw blade that I softened and then shaped and then heat treated it and boiled in bluing salts, its a little bit on the stiff side for what it has to do but it will work.
then last night while looking at the clock movement I noticed these cracks in the main spirng for the Chime side of the movement, the movement even thou its probably over a hundred years old has too much wrong with it to spend the money for a new mainspring, so its being delegated to the shelf as a learning tool so hopefully I won't mess up a good one when one shows up on the front porch.
Cracks in spring
its made from a short piece of band saw blade that I softened and then shaped and then heat treated it and boiled in bluing salts, its a little bit on the stiff side for what it has to do but it will work.
then last night while looking at the clock movement I noticed these cracks in the main spirng for the Chime side of the movement, the movement even thou its probably over a hundred years old has too much wrong with it to spend the money for a new mainspring, so its being delegated to the shelf as a learning tool so hopefully I won't mess up a good one when one shows up on the front porch.
Cracks in spring
dallen, proud to be a member of MetalworkingFun Forum since Apr 2012.
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