Re: I’m an idiot!
Not really an idiot thing to do but I recently bought a seized “John Bull” dial indicator from a steam fair that looked a nice little repair project.
It took less than 5 minutes to dismantle to component parts. Sorting out the damage only a few minutes though reassembly took nearly 2 rather frustrating days as the various parts and springs needed pre tensioning during assembly to actually work. This would have originally been assembled using quite a few jigs and fixtures which I didn’t have!!
Eventually after dozens of attempted reassembling tries, I managed to get it back together in a working state!!
Christopher Capener
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Interests in the collection and restoration of Tefifon players and 405 line television
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