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Perhaps I will someday although I'm getting old. I've done a bunch of things: teaching high school science, lab work, jeweler, wrote technical manuals, became a violin maker, musician, studied electrical engineering, built my own house and now learning watch repair. Mostly I just like learning new things. Don't know where I would get the bread for machines like that though.

My next project is a pendulum clock. My challenge is to better 1second/day and see how far I can go with adjustments. If the timing accuracy of the timegrapher is out by 1 or 2seconds/day, then that makes a nonsense of trying to adjust for better than that.

Can't do that. For one, the calibrating procedure of these machines is not user accessible, or even documented. And then one can't use just another clock or watch as reference, no matter how accurate it is. Be reassured that the timegrapher will be accurate enough for the practical job it's intended (which is not only about precise regulation), especially for non professional use.

ah ok, I wasn't trying to sound flippant, just that in telling more about it I wanted to show the stuff I thought the most interesting. The stand is 1" sq tubing. The end posts were 12L14 so I couldn't weld them, they got brazed...the rest is welded as per photos below. The table is 1/4 cold rolled and works in either end. At one point I'd thought to make one end diamond for carbide and maybe aluminum oxide for steel on the as its best not to use diamond on steel. The other pieces are basically bar stock machined, I don't have much more in the way of photos but I could email you drawings if it would help.

I have no doubt that you could. Like anything technical, break it down into little enough steps and explain the underlying rational and it looses its mystery. I've been at it so long I don't get how most folks get through their days with a couple lathes and mills in the garage

I'm glad I asked. I had no idea it was that complicated but it makes sense. I won an old Waller graver sharpener and was wondering how to apply diamond compound. I'm building a Rube Goldberg sharpening machine, just waiting for it to get warm enough to go out into the barn to do some welding.

I think 1 3 and 5 are for holding and screwing in timing screws on a balance. 2 and four I haven't come across those ends before.

It be really nice to have pictures of the watches. Then I found the link which also made me suspicious of something as they're probably not English levers because are too late manufacturing. That is confirmed on the second link that They are really a Swiss lever. In any case whether it's a Swiss lever in English lever that doesn't change your problem. So unless you don't care about destroying the watches I would suggest a different movement to start on. So if there like the watches in the pictures at the first link they're going to be a challenge for a beginner. I doubt there in a spare parts unless is a watch you could steel parts from. There early enough that they probably hand fit everything Meeting that replacement parts will be difficult to find if not impossible. So somewhere in this discussion group there are some discussions on starting watch repair. The tools Suggestion of watch movements etc. and once you've done a couple watches if you want then come back to these but don't start on them. http://www.horologist.co.uk/graves.htm http://oxfordpocketwatches.blogspot.com/2015/09/jg-graves-express-english-lever.html

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