How do you hold watch parts for engraving?
Holding watches??
- Thread starter Dani Girl
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thermoloc can make for some specialty holding fixtures for small stuff. done properly, such fixtures can be used over and over for similar parts.
tdelewis
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I have used regular modeling clay, and it will work. The kind you used as a child. There is a drawback to using it. If your hand is holding the clay while working, it will get warm and become soft. It will not hold well then. If you use the modeling clay you will need to make something to put the clay in that can be held in the vice. I use some strips of wood glued to a wood base. The wood base is held in the vice and the clay is forced down between the wood strips and your project down in the clay.
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I've recently tried red setters wax which allowed far less vibration I think, I had to resharpening 20x less often than in thermo loc. you'd want to take the band off though I think as setters wax requires the piece be heated to hold well I've heard. I've been told white mineral spirits is the thing to dissolve it.
Dave London
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I would use hot melt glue or orange shellac flakes melted on a piece of wood both can be removed with alcohol
what are the shellac flakes like to work with?
Dave London
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They are a little fiddly nothing you can’t do. They have been used for years jewelers and engraver
they can be melted with alcohol into a sticky paste and then heated to evaporate the alcohol
they can be melted with alcohol into a sticky paste and then heated to evaporate the alcohol
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