SHOP ADVENTURES 43 Jacot Tool Restorations amp Levin Spindle Breakin

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Watchmaker's Jacot pivot polishers are refurbished and shared, we show highlights of the Levin closed style headstock break-in progress where a bearing heating issue arises, we go through our schedule to begin making our product at last and remind you to visit our website. • Precision Machining by Active Atom specialized in Micro-Machining • ** TOPICS COVERED ** • Watchmakers Jacot Pivot Polisher Lathe • Levin 3C Headstock Break-In Highlights • Our Product Making Schedule • Active Atom .com Educational Help • YouTube Creator Shout-outs • JACOT PIVOT POLISHERS • We share a pair of GREAT watchmaker tools, one we have had for many years and the other one we received as a gift. Then the disassembly of both models, reworking, polishing, and the full reassembly and functional testing of not just one made in France, a very vintage Jacot Lathe but a second one been made in Switzerland. • We retire the older one, we already had here to the hands on watchmaker and micro-machining museum. • We are watchmakers and we use a Jacot pivot polisher regularly in our watch service business, so the one gifted to us is now being used after its complete restoration to perform its tasks. • LEVIN LATHE CLOSED STYLE HEADSTOCK BREAK-IN • As a reminder, we already covered the spindle rebuild break-in procedure in our Educational Video Series on Precision Machine Spindle Rebuilding in Part 4 at: • • Precision Machine Spindle Rebuilding ... • However, we thought for this Shop Adventures 43, we would just check in, share the break-in progress for the largest spindle Levin Son produces, the 3C collet spindle that we just finished rebuilding here: • • Precision Machine Spindle Rebuilding ... • We also share what we are doing, also show us utilizing for the very first time, our new procedure charting forms that anyone is welcome to downloaded from the Active Atom website (link below) and we kid you not, a real bearing break-in issue arose (a bearing break-in heating issue) causing us a great deal of panic at first, we had to drop back in the processes and then move forward again, causing us an additional 1 hour of overtime for the break procedure. • This issue is however covered in our downloadable documentation, discussing the known existence of the bearing heating happening and the solutions to try to resolve these issues are in place. So we had to use these for ourselves for the very first time, it happens. • Precision Machine Spindle Rebuilding documentation and forms download: • http://www.activeatom.com/education-s... • ACTIVE ATOM PRODUCT SCHEDULING • Get ready for our Made in the USA product build, it is going to begin at the very beginning in January 2020 and we will share every single finite detail through the product making process, so please continue to follow along with us, we are getting really excited and hope you will as well. • ACTIVE ATOM EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE • http://www.ActiveAtom.com • We enjoy making YouTube shows videos, Shop Adventures and the Educational series, we share more of our efforts on our website offering: • Active Atom Watchmaking and Micro-Machining. • Educational Articles, documents, pictures, literature, blueprints • Listen to Audio Files downloadable MP3 • Downloadable Documentation, Forms from our videos • Blog Posts • A place to Shop • PLEASE FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM • Want to see our latest photos of precision machines, watchmaker machines, tools, parts, tiny items and other fine images shot in high quality by Patrick and uploaded regularly, then join us on Instagram. • WHAT IS SHOP ADVENTURES • Shop Adventures is a Weekly YouTube Series filmed at a home mostly converted into a full machining and finishing operation located in a small Mojave Desert California Town named Yucca Valley. • This series follows the adventures of two childhood friends an alien and his companion as they rebuild vintage precision micro-machines and tools that will allow them the ability to make their own designed product into a reality but only after they stopped doing work for others on these same machines, with these same precision tools for the past several decades. • LEARN MORE ABOUT SHOP ADVENTURES • Active Atom is activity on these Social Media sites: • Instagram - http://instagram.activeatom.com • Facebook - http://facebook.activeatom.com

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