Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology

Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in HorologyMany books have been written on the various escapements, describing their...
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Author: Lewis, W. T. (William T.)
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Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology

Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology

€6,25

Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology

€6,25
Author: Lewis, W. T. (William T.)
Format: eBook
Language: English

Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology

Many books have been written on the various escapements, describing their action, construction and proportion, and the laws governing the same; learned writers have contributed much valuable information on adjusting; excellent attachments for the various lathes have been invented; and factories have expended fortunes to produce machinery of wonderful construction to finish all the parts of a watch in the most approved manner; but all this scientific research, all this painstaking effort, all this care and labor, are rendered abortive by the maker or repairer of a time piece if he does not thoroughly understand and apply the physical laws which govern the science of lubrication. Many a watch, or chronometer, most excellent in all other respects, has come to an untimely end by an almost criminal neglect on the part of its maker to provide against wear in its various parts by such construction as would retain the oil at the places needed. How often the repairerclean he his work as well as he mayreplace he the broken or worn part to put the time piece in as good condition as newfinds that its rate changes, that is loses time before long, and, at the end of one year[Pg 8] is badly out of repair, solely the result of lack of knowledge, or negligence, in properly lubricating, or on account of an oil having been used which was not suitable. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35001
Author: Lewis, W. T. (William T.)
Release Date: Jan 19, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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