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Welcome Jason there's no such thing as the dark arts and mysticism here you want to know something you ask and your answered no question too small no matter how stupid you may think it is everyone has to learn and this is one of the biggest classrooms on the net when it comes to all things horological. Have fun

I'm afraid that my electrode-plating projects have to wait a little as I just couldn't resist a second attempt on a Landeron 48. This is what I just bought. According to the eBay sellers description it is a none runner, balance fine and functions do work. My plan is to describe and picture the journey I will have with this movement. Perhaps find a nice case and give it wrist time again ........ wouldn't that be something?? I still have the winding stem+crown of the first Landeron 48. It will be my first chronograph if succeeded. Needless to say, I could use all the help I can get ! Kitchen sink and all the rest of it Here are the first sellers pictures; As from tomorrow I'll be standing on the corner of the street, awaiting the postman Any first thoughts ?

I just bought this having used the round trays for 20 years. The lid is not pictured. I have used all types of trays covers etc and this one is great 10 spaces and a locking plastic cover. Of course its from GB Mark will be happy worth every penny of the 25 bucks. http://www.ebay.com/itm/250973978381?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Best regards all Jim

You have to push the incabloc few mm out to mount a new spring, en then push it in again. With this it is safe or you have to make it at your own with an lathe. http://www.horlogeforum.nl/t/ww2-horloge-ww1-horloge-dus/103068/25 I think you need these as replacement. https://www.cousinsuk.com/search?SearchTerm=INCA27003 Use rodico to mount it. Good luck!

Welcome ! Horology is a lot of fun, & worth it !!

Thats an impressive collection ( l hope your insurance is up to date ) very nice indeed.

You could try a little heat. Maybe a soldering iron. Could be congealed grease and a bit of heat could melt it.

Welcome Jason, Lots here on this friendly forum. Enjoy

I recently purchased a 21 Jewel Slim 12S Elgin Pocket Watch. Got it for 35 bucks US from Israel (eBay) . Thought it was a great deal until I received it and noticed the balance was really loose. The top balance jewel was completely gone and it's cap jewel was also gone. It looked like they had been shattered. So I started the process of replacing both these jewels within their existing settings. This would require my to have to open up the casing where the jewel sits to prepare it to receive the new jewel. Below is a picture of the movement. First I widened the jewel setting with my vintage anti-burnishing tool. Next, I place the setting in with a bunch of jewels to get a size fit.Then I did a fit test on the pivot to make sure it fit and the shake was okOnce I got the fit right, I burnished the jewel into the settingi found that the sticky side of duct tape was good for keeping the jewel steady as I burnished it back into the setting.I then repeated the process with the cap jewel. Once I found the right size, I burnished in the cap jewel and then put a small drop of oil on the upper jewel hole and place the cap jewel in its setting on top of the balance jewel and screwed it back in place. I then reassembled the balance and tried to get GT watch running. No luck. Took out the balance and removed the lower balance jewel and its cap, both in their settings. I noticed that the jewel was cracked in there placesUsing my Seitz Jeweling set, I punched the jewel out of the setting, cleaned up the setting and then opened up the setting to receive a new jewel.Took a while but I found a good fit with a good size hole and burnished it into the setting. Following that, I reassembled the jewel with setting into the lower plate and replace the cap and screws. I then assembled the balance cock with balance and IT Worked. The balance started to rotate and the watch was again alive. So the job was not easy but I was able to replace both upper and lower jewels and reuse the old settings. Hard work but worth the effort. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I feel for you. But we all hear these sorts of stories too often. Mainly on ebay, but not exclusively. A couple of comments to possibly help you. 1: You had an empty packet delivered. Seller will just say it was in there when sent. An argument like this will be hard to prove. And if this went to small claims court, then it may well still not go in your favour. 2: If the buyer sent your (empty) parcel back using a tracked service, then it should have been weighed. A watch is fairly heavy, so you would be able to ascertain whether the watch was in there at the beginning. This will 100% be the proof you need for small claims. But it will mean you need to have or see the original receipt, or the original packaging as the price on the parcel will help you work out the sending weight. As this was months ago, I wonder if you still have the packaging? Or does the buyer have the receipt? You would hope an honest person who is possibly looking at a fraud charge would keep this sort of thing.

I had a customer order granite plates from Starrett to use in telescopes as temp stable baseplates. They have the same expansion and contraction rate as both aluminum and borosilicate glass. So for securing the aluminum truss it was perfect. I made the worm gear for his clock drive out of aluminum alloy for the same reason. All this mass made his scope very stable. All that said you could cut your gears from aluminum and hide that in granite. so it would look like great big granite wheels.

Friction might be an issue on all the gears (not the pinions, the teeth). But a fun project nonetheless

You can change the bearing on the rotor. Think there is a how to from Mark. You will have to buy a new rotor or a used one and take that to your Tudor rotor. Maybe this could be an alternative? http://www.yukiwatch.com/catalog/item/6784664/7570529.htm Very welcome to the forum btw Hope the link is okay? As there are many fake parts?

The next one I'll let it run for a few days.

I got one of those mini Sanders... Hmm, might try that. Sent from my Honor 5c