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yes the problem of mangled hairsprings fortunately with American pocket watches you have replacement hairsprings. But they don't put a little star after the replacement hairspring and explain something in the fine print? Classically with modern balance wheels the hairspring is individually vibrated to every single balance wheel. Which is why for the most part she would never can find a replacement flat hairspring. There are some minor examples out there where you can but for the most part you cannot. But if you have an over coil hairspring because it was made to very exacting specifications then it comes first in the balance wheel is matched. this is why if you look carefully in the Waltham parts catalog or any other watch catalog for that matter their replacement timing screws. Even Rolex had replaceable hairsprings at one time with timing screws to match the balance wheel to your shiny new hairspring. Then changing the strength introduces interesting new issues? Like the strengths of the hairspring was to match the various mass or simplistically weight of the balance wheel. So in addition to now having a match your balance wheel to its new hairspring the also have to change the mass of the balance wheel to correspond to the hairspring itself. Strangely enough I did this with an Elgin watch a week or two ago it's good that I have lots of Elgin timing screws. just re-reading what you wrote above no you do not change or modify the hairspring its pre-made to exacting characteristics yes you have to change the balance wheel to match the hairspring. one time we had a incoming pocket watch that looked basically like that there were almost no timing screws at all. The owner of the store told the customer we would fix this problem but I did not. Because whoever had a bad hair spring day did an outstanding job of matching the balance wheel to the hairspring and the timekeeping was absolutely perfect and the watch ran perfect. If everything seems to be perfect it's just fine even if it was practically naked. -
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yes I was being serious but? yes always one of the amusements in the universe when people aren't exactly on the same page and answers don't make sense. Usually much better when you're dealing with a person right in front a you you can see immediately that something isn't quite right. I think a better way to do this is I will just show you what I used to use at home. It worked fine for many many years then I had a time span where I wasn't doing any work at home and the plastic containers last time I looked had disintegrated. Even though those were rated for chemicals and as I said lasted for many years they didn't last forever so glass might've been better so you can't see the cleaning location as the newspaper hides it. So the cleaning location is the room for normally washing clothes the newspapers on top of the washing machine. I was just like the idea of a newspaper keeps things from falling where they shouldn't be and it's easy to throw away when I'm all through. two types of baskets purchased off of eBay. The larger one is supposed to go in some other machine typically it's supposed to be up right because the lid doesn't fit super tight and really tiny parts could escape. Which is why everything super tiny goes in the basket with the screw on lid. Then a fine wire attaches to each of the basket so I can pick them up at all the larger parts are strong on the wire in this image the balance jewels have been removed the balance wheel is back in as it will clean just fine and everything's protected. Otherwise the balance wheel has to go out and either be strong on a wire or a large enough basket but typically it would've been strong on the wire. different image showing how to do things then cleaning machine people frown on what's being shown here. Although thinking about it on YouTube they frown on ultrasonic and probably just about everything in the universe. Classically with ultrasonic machines you never want to place anything directly over the transducer like a beaker for instance but this is the way the machine was sold local drugstore had them on sale a very long time ago I think this thing must've lasted almost 20 years before it disintegrated. Cleaning fluid goes in the beaker parts in the beaker in the machine with water around its yes is a lot of taking the parts out I usually put them on a paper towel to spin dry oh wait there is no spinning there but I put on paper towel the drip off while changing the fluids in the beaker it would actually better if you had separate jars 80 1F be swapping the fluids around but it didn't work then at some point in time they changed the rinse where basically it will not draw no matter how hot it got it would not 100% dry. I asked a friend what he was doing and he recommended alcohol. Isopropyl would be better but this is what I used and yes it does dissolves shellac. But it was only in there for a few seconds the purpose was to rinse off the rinse and goes immediately and in dryer and it was never an issue. yes today it probably use isopropyl alcohol but what's the fun in that? Then after a very long time very very long time the little ultrasonic like they typically do decided no longer to function. Fortunately somebody had given me this and you will note there's a piece of plastic to keep the beaker off the bottom of the tank. Then there is water in the whole tank enough that things function correctly but not so much that the beaker is in danger of floating away. Yes various YouTube people would really frown on this procedure but I don't recall any problems at all in originally freeze-drying the hand-held hairdryer that I would just put on the newspaper and put the baskets in front didn't blow super intently and it worked perfect. But it finally disintegrated so I think I purchased this and not sure where it came from but the new one gets much hotter and blows much more intently so usually what I do is I would keep the spacing between it and the baskets much farther away. But then I got creative and made which you see in the image. then I got even more creative and found a piece of scrap metal as I wasn't sure what the actual error pattern was I probably should conducted smoke and windtunnel tests the see the pattern of the air flow so I put a piece of sheet metal on top. Also still had a hair dryer back a distance because I did feel that it was very very hot I really can't see how anyone could dry their hair was something like that it seems like you'd get burnt but maybe that's why got it cheap someplace? so there is how I used to clean watches at home. Now if I needed to clean a watch a just go to work and use an astronomically expensive machine that does a really nice job. But even without the astronomically expensive machine DIY works quite well.
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Hi, I’m using a T rest with gravers to cut the balance. I have noticed that the metal is burnishing so possibly it how I’m holding the graver. -
By Neverenoughwatches · Posted
Split up the parts into more baskets 6,8,10 baskets if needed so the parts aren't over crowded .Little difference compared to an average dedicated parts cleaner basket. Big pieces can be dried as they are. If you want a drying plate then wax melt heaters are a good size , but warm air needs blowing through to dry parts quickly and thoroughly
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