The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hi JJZL Sorry the reply is late but I don't visit here often. Newbilt are almost direct clones of the classic Finebilt. Viryl presses are very different to Toolex, they are more of a new design than a clone of any one machine but I guess you could say they are an amalgamation of the old American aut...

Amscope make decent optical microscopes for the price but I would not buy their digital scope cameras, they are garbage. Stereo microscopes are very important for this work because they allow you to see depth in 3D. I like to use a trinocular microscope (stereo eyepieces and additional port for a ca...

Thanks for the update, this is very interesting. Glad to see they got some sense and gave up on running classic machines. Looks like they are running a single press? I wonder if they will ever consider offering galvanic work to 3rd party plants? They must have plenty of capacity at DADC. Asia/Pacifi...

A few people asked me about this since we are in roughly the same part of the world. My answer was that even Sony is going to spend a few years getting a plant online and fully up to speed. They were wanting to use old equipment and it's not a project you can just throw money at. As far as I'm aware...

I would like to see some pics, too. Thanks!