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WATCH REPAIR DISCUSSIONS, HELP & ADVICE
1. Watch Repairs Help & Advice
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2. Your Walkthroughs and Techniques
  
  Post descriptive walkthroughs of watches you have stripped down and serviced and/or repaired, parts you have made or techniques you wish to share.
  
  This is an interesting section where we post our challenges and how we have over-come them. You can also post walkthroughs and share your techniques.
  
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3. Your Current Projects and Achievements
  
  If you would like to discuss your current projects or show off your latest watch repair achievement and it is not an actual walkthrough please post here.
  
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4. Tools & Equipment
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WRT LOUNGE
1. WRT News & Announcements
  
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2. Introduce Yourself Here
  
  New to the community? We like to know who we are chatting with :)
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3. Your Watch Collection
  
  Show us what you are wearing today, or any watch in your collection - or even show off your whole watch collection. What watches have you purchased recently? :)
  
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4. Watch or Horology Related Videos
  
  Post an interesting watch or horology related video here. Please write a small synopsis or description of why you think the video is interesting. If the video was made by you please say so.
  
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5. Chat About Watches & The Industry Here
  
  Discuss anything about watches and the watch industry.
  
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6. Relax Zone: Chat About Anything Here
  
  Talk about whatever you fancy within the forum rules, not just about watches.
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CLOCK CORNER
1. All Things Clocks
  
  Post all things relating to clocks in this forum. Yes this is a watch forum, but we still love all things that go tick and that includes clocks.
  
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WATCH REPAIR TUTORIALS & INFORMATION
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  3D printed RS mainspring winder project for hobbyists
  
  That makes sense, thanks. Does that mean that the hole (and therefore, the dowel) should be slightly smaller than the inner coil of the mainspring to allow for some space between mainspring and dowel so the staple can fit into that space? I'm thinking about a mainspring that gave me some trouble with my traditional winders and on that mainspring the inner coil is exactly 2.0 mm. Would I then want to have a hole and dowel slightly smaller than that?
  
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  unfortunately that means you'll need a replacement here's some place that has replacements https://www.ofrei.com/page441.html
  
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  Yes, that's what I was thinking, I will scan it just in case but I will leave it like this by now.
  
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  General electric wall clock
  
  You will never be able to do a touchup paint job that isn't glaringly obvious. Either leave it alone or paint a circle of an entirely different color for contrast. Maybe a textured paint even. Or you could stick on a colored sticker.
  
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  Help with setting mechanism on Elgin 0s pocket watch.
  
  Ok, well there’s the problem, the spring collet is broken!
  
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  Can't wrap my finger around it...
  
  That just seems wrong, you would expect more for your money.
  
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  General electric wall clock
  
  I disassembled it and cleaned it, here's some picture before the cleaning. I didn't touch the dial yet, looking for idea as I am afraid the paint in the center will just go away if I clean it with water. Should I scan it and reprint it on some sort of vinyl? Looking for ideas!
  
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  Hey Jamie, I love the organizing drawers but I have to ask where you got all those pocket watches? That's quite a collection for sure. Ebay? Can't help with your progress as I'm half way through my first disassembly and using a new 6497 so I could better follow Mark Lovick's lessons. How many have you buried so far?
  
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  3D printed RS mainspring winder project for hobbyists
  
  When properly cut, the staple does not extend over the hole of the winder. The hole is for the arbor to insert into. The mainspring usually bulges out quite a ways past the arbor with plenty of room for the arbor hook to gram on.
  
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  General electric wall clock
  
  Can't imagine how to fix that dial center, any idea?
  
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  What's the technique to anneal thin carbon steel consistently ?
  
  I think thats just a factor of how hard and thin they are. Under 1mm care is needed its a thin drill. Tthey have to be hard enough to drill steel parts but not so hard that they break easily. Those carbide drills from ebay 10 for £5, i though they were ok when i got them but drilling this piece even in its annealed state i broke 4 of them within a few seconds, absolute rubbish but @HectorLooi said that.
  
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  General electric wall clock
  
  Hi from what I can see of the clock it should br straightforward. The case needs a good clean up and polish. Dial center needs a bit of work as well.
  
  6 hours ago in Dial / Hands Cleaning and Restoration
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  3D printed RS mainspring winder project for hobbyists
  
  I haven't tried printing this yet but had a question about the arbor or dowel size. In the instruction photo it shows the staple extending into where the arbor will sit (I think): Doesn't that mean that the dowel cannot be as large as the inner coil of the mainspring? If it were, would it not interfere with the staple? In the photo above it looks like the staple and dowel would try to occupy the same space. If that means the dowel needs to be smaller to accommodate the staple, wouldn't that then make the inner coil compress to fit the dowel, changing the diameter of the inner coil?
  
  6 hours ago in Mainspring and Winding Tools
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  Help with setting mechanism on Elgin 0s pocket watch.
  
  The setting mechanism works exactly as suposed. If You put the movement in the case, everything will go normally. Of course, You will need the case to do that, as half of the setting mechanizm is part of the case. See this video: OK, now I see that the movement is in a case. Well, but I doubt if it is a case that will do the job. Trhere should be special spring-collet placed in the neck and the part of the stem that is in the case must have special shape that alows to be fixed by the collet in the both positions - winding/setting. The positios must be adjustable by screwing the collet in or out. The action of the stem and collet is shown on the video
  
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