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Desperately in need of some human interaction please 😅 schools off for Easter and I haven't left my house for four days. I'm busy sorting and partially stripping back to identify old movements for donor parts, but warm and cosy in the Watchroom. I've managed about 50 up to now since Monday with only one unidentified ( which I might put up for Cluedo later ), so slowly filling up the new donor draw.  Strange that 25% of them are BFG movements. Probably another 100 or so to go through. The Flume book I'm using is easier to navigate than the Bestfit, this one dates to 1972 and is laid out better than the older editions, as far as I know there are more recent editions published.

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Oh, I’m here for you mate 😀. You appreciate the military ones…for the last week I’ve been pecking away at rebuilding a functioning balance of an Omega 30T2 something something variant. The original balance had crowding issues and the hairspring is beat up and fragile. The staff isn’t fully seated and the spring has this bend I’m afraid to address…

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…it’s like an overcoil bend right at the pins. I’ll try with the overcoil tweezers but not sure it can handle it. So, I’ve been rebuilding a new complete balance with bits from a couple donors. With a new staff and all the balance washers removed I’ve managed to get the replacement balance in beat and zeroed DU/DD. Going to attack the 70 second delta with the verticals today…

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Hi N.E.W. You are starting the Hermit phase, soo have your food pushed under the door.  You have to come up for air   Cheers.

Hi. I have tried to upload a couple of images of containers bought from the RANGE in Aberdeen but I guess they are available at all RANGE stores.  They are plastic coxes withe hinged lids containing screw topped containers total 24  usefull for small parts or movements. I got one to try and will Ger some more.  Retail at about. £ 2.50

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4 hours ago, rehajm said:

70 second delta with the verticals today…

Starting from scratch with no washers is probably the best plan 👍

4 hours ago, AndyGSi said:

Just going through a lot of quartz that look like they've been robbed
from their cases for the gold so hoping most are working.

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Ha, that was my initiation to watch repair, sorting through a bucketful of quartz movements, I loved it.

3 hours ago, watchweasol said:

Hi N.E.W. You are starting the Hermit phase, soo have your food pushed under the door.  You have to come up for air   Cheers.

Hi. I have tried to upload a couple of images of containers bought from the RANGE in Aberdeen but I guess they are available at all RANGE stores.  They are plastic coxes withe hinged lids containing screw topped containers total 24  usefull for small parts or movements. I got one to try and will Ger some more.  Retail at about. £ 2.50

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Oh wow, they're great, I have a Range store just up the road from me. Guess where I'm going tomorrow. 

15 minutes ago, MariusJacob said:

I must admit I am full of envy. 

My wife forced me to go on holidays for a week, so now I am in the cold nowhere, far from my workbench, and all I can do is drink beers and read this forum. 

Thanks for giving me some joy with your posts, otherwise I would be very bored. 

You have a wife, you should not be bored 😉

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15 minutes ago, Neverenoughwatches said:

Thanks for giving me some joy with your posts, otherwise I would be very bored. 

One can never be bored drinking beer and reading the forum.

Replacing a battery for my mother in law, with my ever expanding collection of batteries, did I have the correct one? I'll let you guess. 

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27 minutes ago, RichardHarris123 said:

One can never be bored drinking beer and reading the forum.

Replacing a battery for my mother in law, with my ever expanding collection of batteries, did I have the correct one? I'll let you guess. 

I hope it's not alkaline....🤔...mother in-law...🤔.....yes alkaline will be just fine. 

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41 minutes ago, RichardHarris123 said:

One can never be bored drinking beer and reading the forum.

Replacing a battery for my mother in law, with my ever expanding collection of batteries, did I have the correct one? I'll let you guess. 

So being a ladies were you luck with an SR621 or unlucky with an SR5XX?

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2 hours ago, Neverenoughwatches said:

You have a wife, you should not be bored 😉

I really don't remember what you are talking about. 

16 minutes ago, RichardHarris123 said:

I don't own a quartz watch, nor do I usually work on them but friends and family have asked for batteries replacing. 

Still learning. 

I do own a quartz watch, I could change the battery myself, but I take it to the watchmaker of my neighbourhood so I can talk face to face with somebody about watches.

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42 minutes ago, Neverenoughwatches said:

Lol ok, well I'm not about to explain it, I'm a bit fuzzy on it myself, I'll get it all arse about face.....actually that might be part of it, now I come to think about it. 

I must update myself, I guess nowadays the lubrication procedures and assembly protocols have improved or, at least, changed. 

I hope there is still hope for vintage tools in this area. 

 

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I made a brass object sort of approximating the shape of a balance staff on my lathe (obvs learning), cleaned and reassembled a Timex M24 from a late 60's watch the seller said "needs new battery" and installed a NOS Elgin mainspring that showed up in the mail into an 1890s 6 size that had been waiting on the bench. To find it runs ++++ on the timegrapher, at a wicked 100° amplitude.

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