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Just purchased a vintage demagnitizer and it did not work. So into the guts I went. I disassembled the demagnitizer and found that one of the power leads that was previously soldered to a plate had detached. So to repair it, I drilled a hole in the plate and prepped the cable (cleaned) into the hole; then soldered it into place. It now works. Discount on next purchase:) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Some times dirt gets in and around the inside of the button and it packs tight, this will prevent the button from sitting correctly to the case.

It might not be a barrel arbor/MS problem. Another scenario could happen: it is very hard to see because the crown wheel is beneath the wheel train bridge. Normally, when you turn the crown, you actually turn the sliding pinion (clutch wheel) which turns the winding pinion (under the force of the yoke and yoke spring); then the winding pinion turns the crown wheel, which turns the ratchet wheel, which finally turns the barrel arbor Because of poor oiling or wear, two things might go wrong: the sliding pinion might disengage the winding pinion (wear on the Breguet teeth), or the winding pinion might disengage the crown wheel (the winding stem might have some wear on it and the winding pinion might be allowed to seat at an angle lower then 90 degrees). There would be a sudden MS discharge that you would see on the crown wheel (aprox 30 degrees in the opposite direction if you drew a dot on it, for example).

Hi Roger, the complete kit with the jeweling equipment was an option. This is the version that I have.

Rolex, Cartier, Omega and Breitling all do courses, you need to do coar$e for each brand before they will supply you parts. Depending on your level of ability and presuming your Quality of work is to their standard they can accredit you to different levels. Rolex have an accreditation to be able to 1) dial exchanges and battery and reseals. 2) The above and service all watch's apart from sports models. 3) The above, including sports models apart from complicated models like the Daytona and Yahtmaster 2. There is also a Daytona coar$e you can go on once all the above accreditations are achieved. Cartier have an accreditation but is very limited, it basically shows you how to Refurb a case and do movement exchanges, once accredited you can only get seals and case parts and then send the movement in for exchange, they are in the process of introducing a coar$e in Switzerland for people that have the current movement exchange accreditation which I think will mean they can actually get movement parts once it's done. Omega do a one week accreditation coar$e which means you can get all parts including parts for the co axial watch's. This automatically gives you access to Rado, Longines and Tissot parts but only if you purchase the brand specific tools for each brand. Breitling also do an accreditation but again depends on your ability, Some people can only do Battery and Reseals, some people can only access Quartz and basic automatic parts and the full accreditation means you can do chronographs, nobody can get parts the the emergency watch. All of these accreditations are subject to a workshop inspection that meets certain criteria for each brand. A lot of the main big equipment can be used for multiple brands like polishing machines, timing machines(apart for co axial), cleaning machine, ultrasonic, dryer, ect, but all brands insist on lots of specialist case tools, movement holders and hand tools, not to mention oils, polishing compounds, etc, which are all very expensive and are mostly only available from them. Your workshop must be up to their spec and if you don't buy the tools they won't supply you parts even if you have past the course.