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The watchmakers' hand book

Chapter 3: INDEX.
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A concise workshop manual that teaches the practical skills needed for producing, repairing, and regulating watches and related small machinery. It begins with essential arithmetic, geometry, and drawing techniques, surveys metals, alloys, heat treatments, and finishing processes, and gives guidance on healthful shop practices and precise hand manipulation. Extensive sections describe lathes, cutters, fixtures, measuring methods, and many small tools, followed by step‑by‑step procedures for cleaning, assembling, timing, and troubleshooting movements. The text mixes tested recipes and time‑saving makeshift repairs with instructions for making and testing parts, supported by numerous illustrations and an exhaustive index for quick reference.

INDEX.


NOTE—The references are in all cases to the pages, not to the paragraphs.

  • A
  • Accuracy of tools, to test, 366
  • rules, to test, 33
  • Acids, 127
  • Adjusting rod, to use, 433
  • Agate, 164
  • Akerman on hardening, 77
  • Alcohol, 132
  • and glycerine on oilstones, 192
  • Alloys, 57
  • properties of, 108
  • that melt at certain temperatures, 82
  • Alum, 128
  • Aluminium, 103, 110
  • bronze, 104, 110
  • solders, 113, 116
  • Amalgams, 105
  • American chucks, 224
  • Ammonium, chloride of, 128
  • Angle of cutting edges, 235
  • Angles of escapement, to measure, 465
  • measurement of, 26
  • to construct equal, 44
  • to subdivide, 44
  • Annealing brass, 96
  • steel, 72
  • Anvil, to harden face of, 88
  • Appliances for watchmakers, 189
  • Aqua Regia, 127
  • Arbor, barrel, to make, 409, 420
  • repair, 428
  • true, 429
  • chuck for wheel-cutting, 224, 337
  • to straighten, 505
  • nut, to drill, 425
  • diameter of, 425
  • set-hands, to adjust, 451
  • tighten, 294
  • Area, measurement of, 25
  • Arithmetic, importance of, 17
  • Arithmetical ratio, 22
  • Automatic blow-pipe, 201
  • Ayr stone, 135
  • Axis of crystallization, 166
  • B
  • Back rests, 253
  • Balance, pivots, form of, 400
  • poise of, 401
  • protector, 265
  • spring stud index, 280
  • to make plain, 436
  • vibrations of, 460
  • Balances, proportions of, 401
  • Balance spring, action of, 473
  • collet tool, 286, 474
  • gauge, 475
  • to center, 377
  • clean, 384
  • draw, 47
  • flatten, 477
  • select, 478
  • weaken, 477
  • Balance-springs, palladium, 107
  • platinum, 107
  • Balas ruby, 162
  • Bands, 219
  • Barrel-arbor, to make, 409, 420
  • repair, 428
  • true, 429
  • cover, to make, 410
  • going, to put together, 385
  • hole to bush, 412
  • hook, to fix, 411
  • clock, to make, 420
  • to examine, 379
  • make, 409
  • oil, 388
  • repair, 379, 412
  • true, 379, 413
  • upright, 413
  • Bars, to make, 409
  • Baths for hardening, 78
  • Beaupuy burnishers and files, 195
  • Beat block, 266
  • Beginners, aids for, 381
  • Bell-metal, 98
  • Belts for lathes, 219
  • Bench, 189, 221
  • Bent pivot, to redress, 454
  • Benzine, 133, 384
  • Berlioz rounding-up cones, 362
  • Berzelius pastile, 498
  • Black polish on steel, 154
  • Bleaching silver dials, 487
  • Blow-pipes, 199
  • Blow-pipe, gas, 201
  • automatic, 201
  • Blue polishing stone, 135
  • Blueing steel, 86
  • Board, arrangements of, 177, 189
  • “Body” of steel, 70
  • Borax as flux for soldering, 128
  • Bouchons, movable, 456
  • to make, 298, 456
  • rivet, 456
  • Brass, 90, 110
  • cast, 86, 110
  • dials, to silver, 491
  • etc., drill blade for, 241
  • influence of impurities on, 91
  • plates, to harden, 92
  • rods, to harden, 95
  • to anneal, 96
  • bronze, 121
  • polish, 149
  • select, 91
  • smooth, 139
  • wheel teeth, observations on cutting, 346
  • wheels, to polish, 149, 135
  • Brazing, 119
  • Breguet spring, to set, 476
  • Broaches, 199
  • Broaching, 499
  • a hole round, 499
  • Brocot method of hardening brass rods, 95
  • Broken screw extractor, 262
  • to remove with alum, 128
  • Bronze, 98, 110
  • aluminium, 103, 110
  • to render malleable, 98
  • Bronzing, 120
  • Brush, to clean with, 383
  • Brushes, preparation of, 382
  • Buff leather, 133
  • Burnishers, 198
  • Beaupuy, 195
  • to re-face, 198
  • Burnishing brass wheels, 135, 149
  • Burnt iron, 58
  • Bushing barrel holes, 412
  • pivot-holes, 456
  • C
  • Caliper, figure-of-8, 197
  • for heights, etc., 197
  • micrometer, 270
  • pallet, 466
  • rest, jeweling, 249
  • vernier, 278
  • Camphorated oil, 131
  • Cannon pinion, to tighten, 449
  • Carbon in cast iron and steel, 60
  • Carnelian, 164
  • Case hardening, 88
  • Case, to examine, 389
  • Cast brass, 90
  • iron, 60
  • steel, 61
  • Castings, malleable, 61
  • Catgut bands, to join, 219
  • Cement, application of, 156
  • steel, 62
  • Center of circle, to find, 44
  • Centers, to test truth of, 366
  • various, 266
  • Center wheel, 379
  • to oil, 388
  • Centering attachments, 253
  • from circumference, 307
  • in wax, 157, 314
  • methods of, 305
  • rods, 285, 385
  • Chain, fusee, to ease, 434
  • Chain hook, to rivet, 434
  • Chalk for cleaning, 382
  • Chamfering tools, 281, 283
  • Charcoal for polishing, 133
  • used for smoothing, 133
  • Chinese bronzing, 121
  • Chloride of ammonium, 128
  • of zinc as flux for soldering, 118
  • Chrysolite, 163
  • Chucks, 224
  • Circle, divisions of, 24
  • sub-division of, 52
  • to find center of, 44
  • Circular oil stones, 191
  • Circumference, ratio to diameter, 25
  • to center from, 307
  • Cleaning brushes, 383
  • files, 193
  • gold or gilt objects, 125
  • metal dials, 491
  • nickel movements, 101
  • rough steel, 75
  • watches, 382
  • Clock barrel, to make, 420
  • dials, to clean, 491
  • hands, to blue, 86
  • pinions, to polish, 443
  • to time rapidly, 394
  • Closing barrel holes, etc., 295
  • Cocks, to make, 409
  • Colcothar of vitriol, 135
  • Cold gilding without mercury, 122
  • hammering, 74, 92
  • Collet, balance spring, tool, 286
  • Coloring gold dials, 493
  • Compass, proportional, 37
  • Compasses, 196
  • Conductivity, 110, 112
  • Copper, 89
  • alloys with gold, 102
  • to bronze, 120
  • Cord of lathe, 219
  • Countershaft, 220
  • Counting vibrations, 394
  • Cover of barrel, groove for, 410
  • to make, 410
  • Crocus, 135
  • Crossing out a wheel, 435
  • Crossings of wheel, to mark, 298
  • to renew broken, 440
  • Crystallization, axis of, 166
  • Cube root, 20
  • Curb, to adjust, 415
  • Cutters, to adjust form of, 353
  • for jewels, 165
  • making grooves, etc., 312
  • slide rest, 286
  • steel wheels, 347
  • teeth, various kinds, 339
  • rose and star, 349
  • rounding up, to make, 331
  • tool for making wheels, 353
  • to sharpen slide rest, 287
  • wheel, to make, 339
  • Cutting a file, 194
  • edge, angles of, 235
  • faces of gravers, forms of, 239
  • glass, 498
  • wheels, observations on, 310, 348
  • Cylinder escape wheel, to test, 290
  • to oil, 388
  • pivot a, 454
  • polish mechanically, 468
  • D
  • Dead smoothing, 143
  • surface of gold, to restore, 126
  • Decantation, 136
  • Definitions, geometrical, 23
  • Degrees of circle defined, 24
  • Demagnetizing watches, 403
  • Density, 108
  • Depth caliper, 197
  • Depths, application of laws of, 458, 460
  • in stem-wind work, 462
  • theoretical and practical, 458, 460
  • to ease, 365
  • secure good, 457
  • visible and invisible, to test, 377
  • Depthing tool, to test accuracy of, 368
  • Design, to transfer, 30
  • Dial, enamel, to cut hole in, 484
  • drill, 480
  • reduce diameter of, 486
  • remove figure from, 486
  • plate, to cut, 479
  • to file hole in, 481
  • remove enamel from back of, 482
  • Dials, enamel for, 160
  • fixed by feet, 483
  • screws, 482
  • gold, to restore, 493
  • metal, to clean, 491
  • silver, to restore, 487
  • to paint hours on, 495
  • repair, 161
  • Diamond, 161
  • drill, to use, 169
  • and gravers, 162, 173
  • for polishing, 162
  • powder, drilling with, 168
  • to prepare, 135
  • Diamantine for polishing, 134, 154
  • Diameter, ratio to circumference, 25
  • Dies for screw-making, 315
  • wheel-making, 438
  • Dividing plate, 298
  • scales, etc., 48
  • table, micrometrical, 48
  • Dome, freedom of, 389
  • Douzieme gauge, 196
  • Draw-plate, 298
  • Drawing, geometrical, 28, 40
  • instruments, 32
  • scales, 33
  • to reduce a, 40
  • Drawn steel, advantages of, 71
  • Drifting, 296, 415, 502
  • Drifts, to make, 296, 422
  • Drill, diamond, 162, 173
  • rest, 267
  • Drilling a barrel-arbor, 423
  • enamel dial, 480
  • glass, 498
  • in the lathe, 308
  • lubricants for, 480
  • precautions in, 242, 244
  • tool, to test accuracy of, 366
  • with diamond powder, 168
  • Drills for oil-cups, 281
  • to make, 244
  • mount diamond, 173
  • various, 241
  • Duplex ruby-roller, to make, 173
  • E
  • Elasticity of steel, 70, 84
  • Electro-gilding, 124
  • Elements of practical geometry, 23
  • Elevation defined, 28
  • Ellipse, to draw, 46
  • Emery, 134
  • paper, to make, 134
  • wheels and sticks, 134
  • Enamel, 159
  • false, 161
  • to apply cold, 160
  • remove from back of dial, 482
  • dial, to cut hole in, 484
  • drill, 480
  • erase figure from, 486
  • reduce diameter of, 486
  • dials fixed by feet, 483
  • by screws, 482
  • Endshake, 375
  • Endstone, to fix, 159
  • make, 171
  • Engine, wheel-cutting, 330
  • English movement, to examine, 389
  • Engraved design, to transfer, 30
  • Epicycloidal depths, 459
  • Equaling file, to cut, 194
  • Erasing figure from enamel dial, 486
  • Escapements, action of, 376
  • gauges for, 465
  • play of pivots in, 452
  • to examine, 391
  • measure angles of, 465
  • oil, 387
  • Escapewheel, clip for holding, 289
  • to test, 290
  • cock passage, to turn, 312
  • Essences for cleaning, 133, 384
  • Examining watches, 371, 389
  • Expansion, 109
  • Extracting broken screws, 128, 262, 317
  • square root of numbers, 21
  • Eyesight, to preserve, 175
  • F
  • Face-plate, 257
  • universal, 257
  • False ruby, 163
  • Figure-of-8 calliper, 197
  • File, to cut equaling, 194
  • round-up teeth with, 363
  • use of, 178, 193
  • Files, Beaupuy, 195
  • to clean, 193
  • renew, 193
  • set in handles, 193
  • Filing block, 269
  • fixture, 268
  • flat, 179
  • rest, 269
  • square by hand, 179, 182, 500
  • Finger-piece, to make, 418
  • Flat filing, 179
  • device for, 182
  • polishing, tool for, 302
  • Fletcher furnaces, 201
  • Fluxes for soldering, 117
  • Foot-wheel, 218
  • Fourth wheel, uprighting of, 379
  • Fraise, Ingold, 362
  • Freedom of various parts, 378, 375, 391
  • Frosted surface on steel, to produce, 144
  • Frosting silver dial, 487
  • Furnace temperatures, table of, 78
  • Furnaces, wind and muffle, 201
  • Fusee, advantages of, 432
  • to adjust, 433
  • snail, 145
  • watch, to examine, 389
  • Fusion, points of, 110, 112
  • G
  • Gauges, 196
  • for balance-springs, 475
  • escapements, 465
  • movement, table of, 462
  • registering, 274
  • staff, 275
  • Geneva movement, to examine, 374
  • Geometrical drawing, 28
  • proportion, 22
  • ratio, 20
  • Geometry, elements of practical, 23
  • importance of, 17
  • German silver, 100, 110
  • Gilding, 122
  • bath, to prepare, 124
  • Gilt objects, to clean, 125
  • Glass, to cement, 157
  • cut, 498
  • drill, 498
  • use of, 175
  • Glue, application of, 156
  • Glycerine and alcohol on oilstones, 191
  • Gold, 101, 110
  • to clean, 126
  • deaden surface, 126
  • prepare in powder, 128
  • copper alloys, 102
  • dials, to restore, 493
  • solders, 114, 116
  • springs, 102, 478
  • Graduations of scales, etc., 49
  • Grain of steel, 68
  • Graining prior to gilding, 125
  • steel, 144
  • Grammaire, 298
  • Gravers, diamond, 162
  • to mount diamond, 162
  • use of, 178
  • various, 238
  • Grinder, traverse spindle, 258
  • Grindstone, 192
  • Groove, circular, to cut, 311
  • for barrel-cover, to make, 410
  • straight, to make, 312
  • to turn, 312
  • H
  • Hairspring, see Balance spring.
  • stud index, 280
  • Hairspringing collet tool, 286
  • Hammer hardening, 68, 74, 92
  • Hand fitting pliers, 288
  • holder, 287
  • to enlarge hole in, 287
  • set in position, 497
  • turning tools, 238
  • Hands, freedom of, 373
  • to blue, 86
  • to redden, 497
  • tighten, 287
  • Handles, to set tools in, 198
  • Hard steel, to drill, 243
  • turn, 185
  • Hardening brass, 92
  • gold spring, 478
  • solutions, 77
  • steel, methods of, 77
  • precautions in, 79
  • temperature for, 68, 81
  • Hardness of jewels, to test, 166
  • steel, 82
  • scale of, 111
  • Health, preservation of, 175
  • Heat, mode of applying, to temper, 84
  • of furnaces, table of, 78
  • Homogeneity of steel, 68
  • Hone slates, 134
  • Holder, escape wheel, 289
  • for watch-hand, 287
  • Holes, methods of tapping, 323
  • Hook, chain, to rivet, 484
  • to fix in barrel, 411
  • Hooks for catgut bands, 219
  • Hooked gravers, 288
  • Hours, to paint on dials, 495
  • wheel, freedom of, 374
  • Hydrochloric acid, 127
  • flux for soldering, 118
  • Hydrofluoric acid, 127
  • Hydrogen in palladium, 107
  • I
  • Idlers, 222
  • Impurities in brass, their influence, 90
  • steel , 88
  • Index, to ease, 478
  • Ingold fraise, 362
  • Inks for painting dials, 496
  • Instruments, drawing, 82
  • Involute depths, 458
  • Iridium, alloy with platinum, 107
  • Iron, cast, 60, 110
  • for soldering, 118
  • its properties and uses, 57
  • oxides of, for polishing, 185
  • to case harden, 88
  • distinguish from steel, 57
  • restore, 59
  • wrought, 57, 110
  • J
  • Jewel in pallet, to advance, 463
  • resetting tool, 299
  • setting, cutters for, 137
  • to find axis of, 166
  • holes, thickness of, 400
  • to make, 168
  • set, 171, 298
  • smooth and polish, 169
  • Jeweling caliper rest, 249
  • Jewelry, alloys used for, 102
  • to clean after soldering, 126
  • Jewels, 161
  • to select, 166
  • working in, 165
  • K
  • Keyless pinion, to drift, 503
  • winding depths, 392, 462
  • wheel, to make, 441
  • work, need of oil, 383
  • to examine, 392
  • L
  • Lamps, 190
  • Laps for jewelers, 165
  • Lathe, 210
  • attachments, 247
  • belts, 219
  • care of, 213
  • simple form of, 211
  • for jewel making, 165
  • large size, 216
  • to center rods in, 285, 305
  • band, 219
  • Lead, 99, 110
  • use of, in brass, 90
  • Leaves of pinions, to polish, 445
  • Leclerre’s vibration counter, 395
  • Left-handed screws, to make, 320
  • Lever escapement, to examine, 391
  • Lift, to measure, 465
  • Lines, to connect up, 45
  • draw parallel, 43
  • subdivide, 43
  • Liquation, 92
  • Local time, 54
  • Locking stones, to make, 172
  • Longitude, value in time, 55
  • Lubrication of whetstones, 191
  • M
  • Magnetism, to remove, 403
  • Mainspring, setting up, 385
  • to blue, 86
  • make eye, 431
  • reduce height of, 432
  • select, 432
  • Malleability, etc., of steel, 70
  • Malleable bronze, 98
  • castings, 61
  • nickel, 100
  • Materials used in horology, 57
  • Measurement, exact, 38
  • of angles, 26
  • triangles, squares, etc., 26
  • various solid bodies 28
  • Melting points, 110, 112
  • Mercury, 105, 110
  • to purify, 106
  • Metals, 57
  • to cement, 156
  • Methylated spirit, 132
  • Micrometers, 196, 270
  • Micrometer screw, 39, 48
  • Micrometrical dividing table, 48
  • Mill cutters for steel teeth, 347
  • Milling fixture, 258
  • Minute wheel, freedom of, 374
  • to cut, 310
  • Mixed oils, 131
  • Mortar for making diamond powder 138
  • Motion work, to examine, 374
  • Motive force, effect of variations in, 402
  • Movement, to examine English and American, 389
  • Movement, to examine Geneva, 374
  • Muffle furnace, 201
  • N
  • Natural steel, 62, 65
  • Nickel, 99, 110
  • movements, 100
  • to surface, 147
  • render malleable, 100
  • silver, 100, 110
  • Nitric acid, 127
  • O
  • Oil, 128
  • application of, 387
  • necessary in keyless work, 393
  • retention of, at center pivots, 378, 386
  • on acting surfaces, 132
  • tests of quality of, 129
  • to secure permanency in, 130
  • Oil-cup chamferers, 281
  • Oil-cups, observations on, 282
  • to polish, 153
  • Oilsinks, 131
  • Oilstone, 135, 190
  • Oilstones, circular, 191
  • Oilstone dust, to prepare, 137
  • Oriental chrysolite, 163
  • ruby, 162
  • sapphire, 163
  • Oxides of iron for polishing, 135
  • P
  • Paillard’s balance-springs, 108
  • Painting dials, 495
  • Palladium, 107
  • balance-springs, 108
  • Pallets, 463
  • Pallet-opening calliper, 466
  • stone, to alter, 464
  • cement, 159
  • make, 172
  • move, 463
  • Pallets, verge, to open or close, 467
  • measure, 466
  • Paper used in cleaning watches, 385
  • Parallel lines, to draw, 42
  • Parallelogram, 27
  • Pendulum, counting vibrations of, 394
  • spring, see Balance-spring.
  • vibrations of, 460
  • Permanency in oil, to secure, 130
  • Perpendicular, to erect, 41
  • Petroleum, use for cleaning, 384
  • Pewter, composition of, 99
  • Physical properties of alloys, 108
  • Pickling dials, 488
  • Pinion, cannon, to tighten, 449
  • hollow, to replace pivot of, 453
  • leaves, to polish, 445
  • riveting tool, 294
  • to drift keyless, 297
  • increase or decrease, 444
  • Pinions, etc., cutters for, 349
  • high and low numbered, 460
  • sizes of, 443
  • to make, 442
  • Pivot-holes, cleaning, 382
  • Pivot polisher, 250
  • to bush, 456
  • Pivots, balance, length of, 377
  • form of, 400
  • center, 378
  • play of, 378, 452
  • replacing broken, 453
  • to polish mechanically, 454
  • redress bent, 454
  • turn, 183
  • Pivoting a cylinder, 454
  • Plate, watch, to make, 407
  • Plates, brass, to harden, 92
  • for screw-making, 315
  • to straighten, 504
  • Plating, gold, 124
  • silver dials, 491
  • Platinum, 106
  • balance-springs, 108
  • to solder, 131
  • Pliers, 196
  • hand-fitting, 288
  • Poise of balance, 401
  • Polish, black, on steel, 154
  • Polisher, form of, 155
  • Polishing brass, 149
  • circular grooves, 428
  • cylinder lips, tool for, 468
  • escape-wheel teeth, 153
  • flat objects, 302
  • jewel-holes, 168
  • machine for pinions, 445
  • materials, 133
  • pivots in lathe, 454
  • powders, to prepare, 136
  • ratchet teeth, 427
  • sinks and oil-cups, 153
  • steel, 153
  • stones, Cadot’s, 136
  • Positions, timing in, 399
  • Post, to adjust, 415
  • Powers of numbers, 20
  • Precious stones, 161
  • working in, 164
  • Preservation of health, 175
  • Prime numbers, 18
  • Proportion of numbers, 22
  • balances, 401
  • Proportional compass, 37
  • Protractor, 33
  • Puddled steel, 62
  • Pulleys, 222
  • Pumice-stone, 135
  • Punch, centering, 285
  • riveting, 198
  • Putty powder, 135
  • R
  • Radius defined, 24
  • Railway time, 55
  • Ratchet, to renew barrel-arbor, 425
  • smooth, 140
  • snail, 141
  • teeth, to cut in lathe, 310
  • to polish, 427
  • Ratio, 25
  • Receipts for watchmakers, 407
  • Red-stuff, 135
  • Re-facing burnishers, 198
  • Registering gauge, 273
  • Regulating a clock, 398
  • watch, 396
  • Renewing files, 193
  • Repairing watches, 371
  • Resetting jewels, 300
  • Resin as flux for soldering, 117
  • Resist for use in gilding, 125
  • Retention of oil on acting surfaces, 132
  • Riveting stake and punch, 198
  • Rods, brass, to harden, 95
  • to straighten, 504
  • Roller remover, 264
  • to make duplex, 173
  • Roots of numbers, 20
  • Rose cutters, 349, 357
  • Rottenstone, 135
  • Rouge, 135
  • Rough steel, to clean, 75
  • Roughing files, 193
  • Round hole, to broach, 499
  • Rounding-up attachment, 259
  • cones, 362
  • cutters, to make, 331
  • teeth by hand, 363
  • tools, 330, 359
  • Rubitine, 134
  • Ruby, 162
  • false, 163
  • roller, to make duplex, 173
  • Rust, to remove and to prevent, 58
  • S
  • Sal-amoniac as flux for soldering, 128
  • Salts, 128
  • Sapphire, 163
  • Sapphirine, 134
  • Scale, to remove, from steel, 75
  • Scales used in drawing, 33
  • Scratch-brushing, 125
  • Screw dies, 315
  • head sinking tools, 260
  • to smooth, polish and slit, 143, 301
  • micrometer, 39
  • plates, to make, 316
  • and taps, 315
  • rapid mode of making, 326
  • Screws, double and treble threaded, 381
  • left-handed, 320
  • to blue, 86
  • make internal and external, 315
  • extract broken, 128, 262, 317
  • tray for, 381
  • Sealing-wax as cement, 155
  • Seconds circle, to fix, 484
  • make hole for, 484
  • Sector, 36
  • Semi-cylindrical drill, 245
  • Series of holes, to drill, 309
  • Set-hands arbor, to adjust, 451, 294
  • nut, to make, 449
  • square, to make, 422, 449, 500
  • Setting jewel-holes, 171
  • cutters for, 236
  • Set-square, to center with, 286
  • Sharpening cutters, 237
  • Shear steel, 62, 66
  • Shellac as cement, 155
  • Shoulders, cutters for making, 236
  • gravers for turning, 239
  • to polish square, 155
  • turn square, 183
  • Sight, to preserve, 175
  • Signs used in calculations, 19
  • Silver, 103, 110
  • dial, to restore, 487
  • German or nickel, 100, 110
  • solders, 114
  • solution for dials, 490
  • for plating, to apply, 492
  • prepare, 491
  • Sinks in watch plate, 131, 281
  • to polish, 153
  • Sinking tools, 281
  • Slates, hone, 134
  • Slide rest, 233
  • cutters, 236
  • to sharpen, 237
  • turning with, 234
  • Sliding tongs, 196
  • Smoothing brass wheels, 149
  • metallic surfaces, 139
  • Snailing, circular, 141
  • steel, 145
  • tool for, 146
  • Soap, application of, 383
  • Solders for various metals, 113
  • hard and soft, 113
  • Soldering, 112
  • fluid, 118
  • fluxes used in, 117
  • iron, 118
  • methods of, 115
  • to clean jewelry after, 126
  • Solid content, measurement of, 28
  • geometry, 23
  • squares, 500
  • Specific gravity, 110, 111
  • heat, 110, 111
  • Spelter solders, 114
  • Spinel ruby, 162
  • Spiral, to draw, 47
  • Split chucks, 224
  • Spotting, circular, 141
  • machine, 141
  • Spring, balance, 473
  • Springs, to blue, 86
  • Square hole, to drift a, 502
  • measurement of, 26
  • root, 21
  • set hands, to make, 422, 449, 500
  • shoulders, to turn, 183
  • to file by hand, 500
  • winding, to renew, 430
  • Squares, solid and hollow, 500
  • to make, 422, 449, 500
  • Staff gauge, 275, 277
  • to straighten, 505
  • Stake, riveting, 198
  • Staking tool, 293
  • Star cutters, 348, 357
  • wheel, to true, 417
  • sink, to make, 410
  • Steel, 61, 110
  • characteristics of good, 63
  • drawn, 70
  • drill blade for, 242
  • influence of impurities on, 88
  • maximum elasticity of, 82
  • precautions in hardening, 79
  • preparation of, 72
  • to anneal, 72
  • braze, 119
  • clean rough, 75
  • determine qualities of, experimentally, 66
  • distinguish from iron, 58
  • polish, 153
  • restore, 59
  • snail, 145
  • smooth, 143
  • temper, 81
  • turn hard, 185
  • whiten, 84
  • wheels, cutters for, 347
  • Stem wind pinion, to drift, 503
  • wheels, to make, 441
  • Stepping device, 227
  • Sterro, 99, 110
  • Stone, pallet, to cement, 159
  • Stones for polishing, Cadot’s, 136
  • precious, 161
  • to make pallet, 172
  • Stool, 190
  • Stopping barrel holes, 412
  • pivot-holes, 456
  • Stopwork, proportions of Geneva, 416
  • to examine English, 389
  • examine Geneva, 374
  • Straight groove, to make, 312
  • Straightening rods, etc, 504
  • Stud index, hairspring, 280
  • Studs, to remove, 291
  • Subdivision of angles, 44
  • circle, 52
  • lines, 43
  • Sulphuric acid, 127
  • Surfaces, smoothing of metallic, 139
  • Surfacing nickel movements, 147
  • Synchrometer, Guilmet’s, 398
  • T
  • Tailstock, 247
  • Tap, to increase diameter of, 323
  • Tapping holes, various methods of, 323
  • Taps for screw-making, 317
  • left-handed screw, 320
  • Teeth, forms of, 365
  • of escape wheels, to test, 290
  • lever escape wheel, to polish, 153
  • to cut, 330
  • precautions in cutting, 341, 346
  • steel, to polish, 427
  • to renew in wheel, 439
  • round up, 363
  • true, 440
  • Temper, as indicated by blueing, 87
  • Temperatures, determined by melting alloys, 82
  • determination of furnace, 82
  • of furnace, approximate, 73
  • of temper colors, 82
  • Tempering steel, 82
  • Tightening cannon pinions, 293, 449
  • hands, 294
  • set hands arbor, 294
  • Time, 54
  • standard, 55
  • to ascertain true, 54
  • Timing in positions, 399
  • watches and clocks, 394
  • Tin, 97, 110
  • solders, 114, 115
  • use of, in brass, 90
  • Tinning surfaces, 119
  • Tool, form of, for turning, 238
  • for balance spring collet, 286, 474
  • closing barrel holes, etc., 293
  • drifting, 296
  • flat polishing, 301
  • measuring verge pallets, 466
  • polishing cylinder lips, 468
  • pinion leaves, 445
  • pivots, 454
  • resetting jewels, 299
  • riveting pinions, 293
  • snailing, 146
  • spotting, 141
  • tightening cannon pinions, 293
  • hands, 293
  • set hands arbor, 293
  • Tools, ordinary small, 260
  • need of good assortment, 187
  • screw head, 329
  • for hand-turning, 238
  • making jewels, 165
  • rounding up teeth, 359
  • sinking screw heads, 260
  • watchmakers, 189
  • to set in handles, 193
  • sharpen turning, 237
  • test accuracy of, 366
  • escape wheels, 290
  • Tool set, 237
  • Tongs, sliding, 196
  • Topaz, 164
  • Tourmaline plates, 167
  • Tracing, 30
  • from dial, 495
  • Train, play of pivots of, 378
  • Trains of watches, usual, 394
  • Transferring, 30
  • Traverse spindle grinder, 258
  • Triangles, 26
  • Tripoli, 135
  • Trueing a barrel, 412
  • arbor, 429
  • star-wheel, 417
  • wheel, 440
  • Truth of tools, to test, 366
  • Turning sphere, tool for, 241
  • by hand, 238
  • tools, forms of, 238
  • to grind, 237
  • velocity in, 235
  • with either hand, 186
  • slide-rest, 233
  • Turpentine, use of, in drilling, 480
  • Venice, as flux for soldering, 117
  • Tweezers, 196
  • for removing studs, 292
  • U
  • Universal face-plate, 256
  • head, 256,303
  • Unlocking pallets, to make, 172
  • Uprighting a barrel, 413
  • of center wheel, 378
  • tool, to test accuracy of, 367
  • V
  • Velocity in turning, 235
  • Verge pallets, to measure, 466
  • open or close, 467
  • to straighten, 505
  • Vernier, 37
  • caliper, 278
  • gauge, 278
  • Vibrations of balance or pendulum, 460
  • to count, 394
  • W
  • Watch-glass, to reduce, 499
  • hand holder, 287
  • to blue, 86
  • tighten, 293
  • plate, to make, 407
  • to de-magnetize, 403
  • time rapidly, 394
  • Watches, to clean, 382
  • put together, 385
  • repair and examine, 371, 389
  • usual trains of, 394
  • Watchmakers’ bench, 221
  • receipts, 407
  • Water, annealing steel in, 73
  • of Ayr stone, 135
  • Watered surfaces on nickel, 147
  • surfaces, to produce, 139
  • Wavy surfaces, to produce, 139
  • Wax chucks, 157, 230
  • to set objects in, 157
  • Weight of balance, 401
  • Wheel, cutters, 258
  • or punch, 438
  • tool for making, 354
  • to make, 340
  • cutting engine, 330
  • to divide a rule on, 50
  • to polish in, 427
  • foot, 218
  • mode of holding in cutting, 337
  • teeth, to cut in lathe, 336
  • tooth, to renew, 439
  • to divide, 333
  • make steel, 441
  • mark crossings of, 298
  • rough out, 435
  • straighten, 504
  • true, 440
  • Wheels, arbors for cutting, 337
  • identical, 438
  • observations on cutting, 346
  • steel, cutters for, 347
  • to ease depths of, 365
  • polish brass, 149
  • repair, 439
  • Whetstones, 190
  • White smoothing, 143
  • Whiting, 136
  • Wind furnace, 201
  • Winding square, to make, 422
  • renew, 430
  • Wire-drawing plate, 298
  • gauges, 272
  • Work-bench, arrangement of, 189
  • Y
  • Yellow copper or brass, 90
  • Z
  • Zinc, 89