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Unloaded most of my seikos .. Maintained these to vintage pcs. Seiko 5 sporsmatic Seiko SGP diashock Thanks for looking ...

A cracking day, so pulled out the old Norton for a change from working on the kitchen!

LOL, Thanks Geo, I had to look up what chicken strips were, I wasn't familiar with the term. I was a "peg scraper" back in the day and lost my license one season for accumulating too many speeding tickets. I have to laugh when I see some of the modern rockets with the back tire worn to the cords in the middle and like new at the edge. They're missing half the fun!

Richo "Dynamic Wide 9" Service New watch to practice on came in the mail today. It was a cheapie on Fleabay; but has a Day/Date Complication, with a pusher advance for the date, that I thought would be a nice advancement in my training. There was two other components in servicing this watch I need practice on: springs and incablocs ... and this movement has them in spades! And to stretch myself further I choose this movement because it uses a copy of the Seiko DiaShock System, this time with a more complicated three prong keeper; as apposed to the dual prong keeper in the 7S26A Movement I completed previously. I couldn't find any service information on the movement, so I just went with skills the Lord has given me, experience from the past 3 movements and reference photos. First Dial and Hands are removed Remove the Date Ring, which is only held by spring tension on the Day Jumper. Next remove the Date Dial Guard Remove the Date Ring, and the Calendar Works ... Note the spring for the Day Jumper, and one also for the Date Jumper. Continuing, remove the Date Drive Wheel (which is in two parts) , The Motion Works, and the Cannon Pinion. Remove the Setting Lever Spring, and the cover for the Date Advancement Pusher Works VERY carefully remove tension from the Date Advancement Spring, it is under a lot of load and is "S" shaped when removed. Next remove the Date Advancement Works. Unload tension on the Yoke Spring, and remove the Yoke and Setting Lever. The Clutch Wheel and Winding Pinion will now fall out once the Stem is removed. Release the spring tension from the movement Remove the Balance Remove the Pallet Fork Cock, and Fork. Remove the Ratchet Wheel, Crown Wheel, and Click. Note the orientation of the Click Spring and remove. Remove the Train Wheel Bridge Remove the Fourth Wheel, Third Wheel and Escape Wheel. Sorry I forgot to get this picture, I got a little engrossed in my work ^_^ But there is nothing special about the layout, just your standard 17J configuration. Remove the Barrel. Remove the Centre Wheel Bridge. And lastly remove the Centre Wheel Time to clean the parts ... All the parts clean and ready for reassembly. Reassembly is just a complete reverse of the previous procedure. The only difference is the incablocs, as they are a DiaShock System, and the Keepers are VERY small indeed. As shown the 7S26A Walkthrough, use a plastic covered Paperclip as a special tool to hold the Keeper in place while your remove and install. I hope this is a help to others, and I'll continue to post up the movements that I work on, so as to create a library of walkthroughs for many movements, and as a catalog of my self-training and advancement in this wonderful trade.

I was once on the back of friend's Douglas Dragonfly (opposed twin cylinders), coming away from a November 5th party. The engine wasn't going too well, spluttering and coughing when, with a huge bang, two potatoes shot out of the twin exhausts! Some clown had stuffed them up there as a joke... On another occasion, on the back of his WW2 Royal Enfield despatch rider's bike, a taxi turned in the road just in front of us. Luckily, we managed to demolish the taxi's running board and slid to one side unhurt - except for an exhaust burn on my ankle where my skin had touched the hot pipe. That stung for a bit, I can tell you.

I once briefly sort of owned a Vincent Comet 500cc motorbike I had bought for £15, due to a financial crisis the previous owner re-claimed his bike before I ever got to ride it. Had my finances been sounder and I actually did get to ride it then I probably would not be writing this now!

"two tears ago"? Surely it was a happier occasion than that... :D

I should have added to the above is I have used a water based cleaner in a ultrasonic cleaner for many years and this was the last watch I cleaned with this solution. When I re-cleaned I used ELMA cleaning solution and maybe this proves that the cleaner is better who knows !!!!