Thread: Optivisor

I have a similar one to yours BT, but couldn't get on with it.

I found that the loss of peripheral vision was very annoying so when I saw this one listed on Ebay I thought I would give it a go.

No loss of peripheral vision, can flip the lens only out of the way very easily rather than the whole visor and I can angle the lens to adjust for distance of the object. It is also much lighter, particularly if you don't use the LED light, which I don't.

All in all I am much happier with this one and now actually use it regularly, which I didn't do with the other type.

I guess with mine I can pretend I'm skin diving.

BT

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

It enables me to see stuff again,

G’day Bob.

The next thing to put on your list is a “Maggy Lamp” The Australian made one.

http://www.redbank.net.au/Maggylamps.pdf

There’s none on Ebay at the moment, but they do turn up frequently. I picked one up for about $60 last year. Its great.

Regards Phil.

The last auction I attended prompted me to bid on two items at the same table: A Shunk rota grip chuck that I scored for $100 (which retails for around $11,000). I dropped out of the bidding on the Maggy lite which I think went to $190 + 25% buyer's rip). There's an abject lesson on the relative value of things there somewhere.

GQ. P.S. Now I have to find a nice Cazaneuve HBX360 to mount to the chuck.

I'll just have to make do with my VIP Master Lens, Phil.

All the way from Peekskill N.Y. Picked it up at a secondhand book shop about fifteen years ago. I just had a close look at the fluoro lamp and discovered that I now own my first Waldmann! Looking at the thing I'd imagine it dates from the sixties.

Gregory,

A while back Ross "AlfaGT" started a thread on PM about an exquisite chuck he had purchased as a Christmas present for his shop. Might have been a Schunk but then, it might have been a Rohm. It was a thing of absolute beauty.

You need the Cazeneuve. At least you'll be able to read the instruction book!

BT

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

You need the Cazeneuve. At least you'll be able to read the instruction book!

BT

Oh, BTW, all my French is bar french..good for getting into deep trouble, not so good for explaining to the Gendarmes what exactly was the nature of the proposal one made to the comely mademoiselle prior to their arrival. As far as technical terms go: not so much.

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Gregory,

A while back Ross "AlfaGT" started a thread on PM about an exquisite chuck he had purchased as a Christmas present for his shop. Might have been a Schunk but then, it might have been a Rohm. It was a thing of absolute beauty.


BT

Bob, my Shunk is probably from the generation prior to Ross' Rota-Grip, but it has the same level of goodness. It is a three jaw adjust-true, and the jaws pop out with a twist of the key, and all index back to the same spot via some internal indexing arrangement. It came with five sets of jaws (!!) and the keys. The sellers had a Caz HBX500 that sold for $6K complete with a 12 piece multifix and a Shunk of its own, as well as 3 other chucks and the suite of accessories. It had a 1.5metre bed or I would have bought it. The sole user since new demonstrated it for us. It is a fantastic machine, just one notch too large for my needs. It was almost 30 years old and had the original scraping marks evident. No damage, either. Truly a rare delight, just when I was too cautious, or too poor, or both.

The HBX360 would be ideal. They had one before-that's where my Shunk used to live. The seller told be they paid more for each chuck than they did for the complete Chinese 1560 lathe they had sitting beside the Caz, unloved.

An interesting bit of Caz history by Ole Steen.

User:Ole.steen/Cazeneuve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thank you Bob, I hadn't seen that before. The younger Henri had some inventiveness in him all right. Mike Garwood and I watched slack-jawed as the owner* demonstrated the machine to us. The dials had those little windows for tenths like you see on Tesa Master micrometers. It was the most German French thing I have ever seen, but it was still decidedly French, which I like.

The machine (I think an HBX 590) came with all of the accessories in one lot. A dealer bought it, so you know it'll take serious money to get the machine and all the bits now. It sold for $6K + buyer's premium. He also bought an equally well-loved Deckel FP4M for $13K. I think they were the nicest two used machines I am ever likely to see: both over 20 years old but both tight and undamaged.

*The owner was one of three partners in a small tool and die shop. The three of them, Swiss, German and English, had enormous dignity and enthusiasm (still!) for their machine tools. It was unpleasant watching them go through the bone-picking that is a retirement auction. I felt like a thief carting off that Shunk for $100.

I only bought the Shunk because I thought it said "skunk". When I saw my mistake I said, "Hey! That stinks!". But it didn't.

GQ

I do some work for a company in Ringwood called SGE, they make small stuff like medical needles.

They have dozens of these from Jaycar. Similar to a maggy light.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=QM3544&keywords=magnifying+lamp&form=KEYWORD

$49.95. I’m told they are cheaper from Jaycars parent company in Sydney. I forget their name now.

Regards Phil.

Originally Posted by Machtool

I’m told they are cheaper from Jaycars parent company in Sydney. I forget their name now.

Regards Phil.

I just did some searching Phil...if its Electus Distribution their price is the same.

Greg

I purchased a magnifying visor from Jaycar (electus) and I believe they are overpriced at $40. They come with high intensity LED illumination which I found to be less than underwhelming , more of a gimmick, and it loads your head with extra weight from the batteries not to mention that the visor is heavy for what it is. The adjustment band is unergonomic and gives me a headache, rigid plastic with a snap connector . Good hobby stores sell the plain ones for around $20. I have a better quality pair which I use for gem faceting and this has an elastic band retainer , is very light and comfortable. Also if you decide to purchase the Jaycar ones you should try them out in-store to be certain that the lenses are uniform without distortion.

Originally Posted by Greg Q

I just did some searching Phil...if its Electus Distribution their price is the same.

Greg

Originally Posted by Greg Q

I just did some searching Phil...

Electus, was the name I was looking for. That may have been something to do with the customer having an account with Electus. They mentioned they could get them cheaper from Sydney, than they could from Jaycar.

I’ve only seen the bench type, whilst its not a Maggy light, they are not bad. I’m thinking about bolting one to my scraper blade hone. That would be some Gizmo.

Phil.