East German Watchmaker's Drill press

2021-08-22

I got this old and interesting east German drill press. It was in working condition but I decided to service it a little in order to make it last longer and do some preventative maintenance. What’s really interesting is that this drill press uses a Centrifugal governor for speed regulation. Work piece Table The most interesting thing is, that contrary to other drill presses, where you have a pinole that lowers the drill this drill possesses a table that raises the work piece to the spindle.

Microscopy Insights #5

2021-08-15

All images taken with a Sony Alpha SLT-A77 on my MBS-10. Fern Fountain Pen Tips Polyamid Elastan Fabric

Electrical Maintenance

2021-07-24

Changing outlets of a broken extension cord I have an old mangled extension cord, that has been sitting around, so I figured I fix it so I can make use of it again. The Schutzkontaktstecker was falling apart and the cable had a cut that someone fixed with some tape. I cut off the broken part which fortunately was quite close to one of the ends and replaced both the plug and socket with a TAURUS 2 plug and socket from PCE.

Restoring a Paul Waechter Microscope Va

2021-07-11

I acquired this Paul Waechter microscope a while back. It was in quite a rough shape, most of the brass plated parts had the brass rust off or corroded. I decided to only fix the severely broken parts and keep as much of it original, as possible. I’m generally not a fan of making old things look new and shiny again, old things have the right to look old and used.

Microscopy Insights #4: Lamprohiza Splendidula

2021-06-30

I found this firefly Kleiner Leuchtkäfer Lamprohiza Splendidula on my balcony caught in a spider web. I released it afterwards.

Naturwildpark Freisen

2021-06-20

All pictures taken with my Sony SLT-a77 with a Minolta AF 28-100mm F3.5-F5.6, Minolta AF 50mm F1.7 and Tamron SP AF 70-300 F/4-5.6 Di VC USD. Storks Deers Arctic Foxes Foxes Raccoons Raccoon Dogs European fallow deer Mouflons Geese Falconry Old Agricultural Machines Lanz LK20

Saarschleife

2021-06-14

All pictures taken with my Sony SLT-a77 with a Sony DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM objective.

Cleaning a Thales MEZ

2021-06-13

So I got this Thales MEZ a while back which was in a super bad shape: In particular after a general outside clean I redid the paint on the front-panel, as the majority was rusted off: However, I did not clean it on the inside at the time and just put it into my shelf to sit there. Now I decided to finish what I started and repair the rest of it.