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I took a few pictures of all my lathes. 13 in all, need to lighten the load eventually. Love the ones with the Countershafts: plenty of control. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Nice restore of the Marlin - I just put this Automatic togetehr form NOS parts.

Brigada Tourbillon today.

Oh come on, that's domestic subterfuge 101. distract attention away from the bag of watches toward the shiney lathe under your arm,. rinse and repeat.

Looks good to me

This is the test I do, but not all movements turns backwards at the end, especially Seikos don't do that. I'll test the air puff and see what happens. I'm quite sceptical though.

Nice collection JD... I've only got three, which now reinforces I don't really have a problem!

trade um for high dollar watches? vin

Hi jd another tool junkie HaHa. nice to look at nice to use but parting with them sad

Thanks Rogart, was almost hoping to see you jump in on this post, and there you are... :-) That Klocksnack thread was right up my alley. For some reason I never joined that forum. Stupid, being Swede and all. Will jump in there now. On the topic, when you say ”old h/s” is that old as pocket watch or will my stash of regular messed up watch h/s do for a start? h/s material has made me wonder since I got started on this hobby. It’s weird that such a delicate thing can work with with material ranging from soft as butter to stiff as steel. At least that’s how I have experienced when trying to correct them... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Your decision not to touch those pallets is wise. You obviously know the following, just a review ,however; Impulse jewel to come to rest inside fork horn as the fork is in mid-point between banking pins, is the ideal position (both in beat) ) to recieve impulse, delivery of the impulse at this instance ,however, depends on pallets position whose workings "" pallets and escape teeth "" is to dish out an healthy impulse. Only then we have an in beat escape mech and can expect to see "happy" running. Am I right?

How strange! I'm thinking it's highly unlikely that it was related to the out of beat problem but that something has shifted / settled on removing and rebuilding the parts, what I don't know and it's pure speculation. Perhaps something rubbing or catching, a screw head very slightly proud etc? It's great that it's sounding and looking better, well done on that. Re the beat error, on these with a fixed stud if I get it within 0.5 I typically call it good enough though I'll try for 0.3 or lower but around there you only need the tiniest movement to get it off the other way.

Its very sad but as you get older your fingers aint the same...I don't think I could do without a selection of those grab claw crown winders which keep my hand wind watches going especially when the crown gets a little worn. Perhaps I should just stick to automatic watches

Hello Nicksilver!! Tanks a lot, found out, thanks to you guiding...

Hi I have a tool fetish and gather tools like a magpie so basically all of them!!!. The old adage applies "give us the tools and we will do the job" .

Good eye glass to suite my vision. Without it I can’t see anything that is tiny.

Pretty sure the spring goes like the red line, the click is upside down as it is in your pic, the round parts goes in the blue circle, the long finger part pointing at the crown wheel.

Hi Cherian welcome to the forum

Welcome to the forum Cherian.

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

Funny, but - you cannot pay incredibly low prices and expect professionally executed tools. Not fair IMHO. Some of the cheap tools can be improved easily with little effort to get a still cheap but usable tool. E.g. change the brass screws against steel ones for few cents in the above mentioned Indian screwdrivers. You can even use swiss blades. BTW loose screws and dropping blades will annoy you with swiss/french screwdrivers, too! For years now I use a cheap Indian sliding pin tong for holding certain barrel arbors. Initially a ridiculous tool, after machining the suitable opening it serves its purpose perfectly. Frank

Why, this is an English speaking forum