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    • I see. I understand, thank you. Though, I have access to 3D printing and the machine shop at my univeristy. Getting those parts should be fine. An example with the National. I can request the machine shop to turn the national spindle to support an Elma basket. I think its possible further for them to make an extension to support an Elma basket for the Brenray. I am just not sure which machine requires the most effort. I am trying to see the costs of restoration on each of them and then ultimately buy the one. I haven't seen a watch cleaning machine on the local market for years. So I am not sure if I should let go of this opportunity. 
    • This is I believe Junhans only digital watch. I recently opened it to change the battery and was very surprised when the movement a small black rectangle just fell out. It appears it was just glued into case and the glue failed over time, it was some sort of white glue. How common is it to glue movements in?  Also what sort of adhesive should used to refix the movement? It seems to be a metal plastic interface, with glue needing gap filling properties.
    • yes classic problem of American pocket watches but Americans are clever sometimes the cleverness is this just put the watch into the operating mode of out of the case by moving that. After all at one time the watches were sold separate from the cases and they had to run outside of the case so typically they would have a method of achieving that   would help to have the classic information like what was the watch doing when you received it? In other words was the watch running and now it's not or the watch wasn't running at all and you're trying to repair it? If you remove the pallet fork does the gear train spin? then it's really hard to tell from your picture we really need a better picture of this location as I really can't see the pallet jewels and I'm curious about the location of the banking pins. Unfortunately on American pocket watches that are adjustable and often times they are not in the right place. Occasionally they have enough adjusted so much they have a habit of moving all by themselves and that could be very bad.
    • If that is the situation I wouldn't bother. There are members on here that have 3d printed baskets and some have replaced the heating element. I also know some have replaced all the wiring. 
    • https://ranfft.org/caliber/1004-AS-555 I think we have a minor problem with the 555 according to the specifications it measures Dimensions 12.8 mm x 19 mm.  then there is the other problem banking pins how odd? the odd aspect was I didn't really look at the picture that carefully and before I closed out the page scrolling down to the bottom I saw the remark down below and that is a problem. Remarks: cylinder escapement.   then the size is definitely helpful except seems to be an odd size? you to look at the PDF attached for what watch sizes are supposed to be so years doesn't quite fit the sizing and I have a sample image of something below. The picture isn't quite clear enough of the setting components. So in the sample you can see the setting components where the really easy to see versus yours that are not which would be helpful because as I said the size just doesn't seem to correspond anything I'm looking at and I can't see the setting components. watch-ligne-size-chart.pdf
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