NAWCC Field Suitcase Classes
Chapter 190 has already sponsored several NAWCC Field Suitcase Classes in Ventura County. Several more are either scheduled or in the planning stages, including:
FSW 104 - Introduction to Weight and Fusee Driven Clocks - Instructor: TBD, scheduled for November 11-14 2011. This four-day clock repair course will focus on one-, two-, and three-weight regulators, grandfather and fusee clocks including tubular and bell chime. Completion of FSW 103 is a pre-requisite. Please contact Paul Skeels at plskeelsatty@verizon.net if you are interested in this course.
FSW 101 - Introduction to Basic Time and Strike - Instructor: Ray Marsolek, scheduled for October 7 - 10 2011. This course is for entry-level students wanting to learn and gain confidence in the fundamentals of clock repair and will prepare them for other FSW courses. It contains hands-on practice in component definition, part handling, disassembly, cleaning, assembly, minor troubleshooting and testing. Students may have time to work on more than one movement during this four-day course. There is no pre-requisite. Click here to download the class flyer for more info (PDF format). Please contact Ralph Napolitano at ralphnapolitano@msn.com if you are interested in this course.
FSW 302 - Beginning Wristwatch Cleaning and Repair - Instructor: Ferdinand Geitner, scheduled for January 27-30 2012. This watch course is designed to familiarize the student with working on a basic, time only,
manual wound mechanical watch movement, identifying individual part, their names and
function. The student will learn how to hold and use watchmaking tools correctly, get
accustomed to focusing on attention to detail and acquire hand-eye coordination which is
essential to working on micro mechanical devices. There is no pre-requisite for this course. Click here to download the class flyer for more info (PDF format). Please contact Weber Wang at weberwang@hotmail.com if you are interested in this course.
Any questions, information required on these classes or classes desired can be addressed to Mike Schmidt at EagleCreekClocks@msn.com.
Many of these classes are held in the small town of Santa Paula. Click here for information on lodging, restaurants, and other places of interest in the Santa Paula area. |