I mentioned in another post that when “Liberation Day” was pronounced, I did some research and determined that it was time to complete my bench (Oh, huh, it’ll never be complete, but that’s a different story). My materials house sales rep said “Anything we have in stock goes for the current website price, but we won’t quote you on anything we have to order as we have no idea what it will cost”. Yikes!

One of my purchases was Bergeon’s finest oiler set, the 7013-4:
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So, how does one reconcile this:

I tried to pour the piss out of the boot by reading the instructions on the heel?

Here’s it’s big brother:

Fortunately, the tool itself doesn’t seem to have an affinity to vectors. Future experiments will tell…

I quote it as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the world’s conundrums these days. This is just a quick note, but down the road, much more detail.

So, as the Bullwinkle narrator once said “On with the show!”:

My newest favorite supplier sent me this fabulous “Anger Ball”:

I tip my hat ’cause I have an eight-inch wrist and it’s sized for an eight-inch wrist, not one of those cheapy little things that were made in China and sized for a six inch wrist. Of…

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A work buddy and I were wondering how they make silicon hairsprings.

Segue to my desktop; I’m running tests and while they go, I’m reading “Horology” by Barry B. Kaplan, 2022, Shiffer Publishing Ltd., New York, and he outs it.

It’s a process called DRIE or Deep Reactive Ion Etching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_reactive-ion_etching where ions are accelerated in an ionized gas toward the subject and etch where not masked. Since they are accelerated toward the work by a…

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