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gary17

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Hi

I have just started my first rebuild.

I'm hoping to get help.

I'm doing my first rebuild and i've come to the escape wheel and the pallet (the anchor thing with 2 jewels that interacts with escape wheel)

Do they just have to be placed on the jewel? I can see no hole within the jewel to accept the escape wheel or pallet.

It just seems very loose.

Is this correct or have i made another mistake

Thought i would ask before screwing down the pallet cock.

cheers

gary

 

 

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14 minutes ago, gary17 said:

Hi

I have just started my first rebuild.

I'm hoping to get help.

I'm doing my first rebuild and i've come to the escape wheel and the pallet (the anchor thing with 2 jewels that interacts with escape wheel)

Do they just have to be placed on the jewel? I can see no hole within the jewel to accept the escape wheel or pallet.

It just seems very loose.

Is this correct or have i made another mistake

Thought i would ask before screwing down the pallet cock.

cheers

gary

 

 

Huh... Very odd that a pivot jewel would have no hole for the pivot. Can you provide a picture of the situation? Could it be a capped jewel but with hole jewel missing?

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I think i've explained wrong,There's a hole with a jewel at the bottom of each hole.The pallet  and escape wheel both fit in the hole. but there no hole, In the jewel itself? So the escape wheel and pallet are loose fitting into there holes.

God i hope i've explained that better

apologies

gary

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Have you looked at any YT vids of how a watch works? Sorry I don't have a link handy but there are a bunch, some of tge old ones from Hamilton and Elgin/ Waltham are superb, very clearly showing the function of each part with animation and everything.

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If you can't see the hole you are not using a loupe. 

Then if you see the hole, but the wheel or pallet fork fits loosely as in never finding its place , then the pivot has been snapped. 

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IMG_20190812_212534.thumb.jpg.7c7a038331d175ebfb4cca14ebdc7292.jpgHang on

See the two purple hole? the jewel holes? The escape wheel axle or arbour goes in to 1 hole. and pallet? or fork? axle arbour goes in other.?

The teeth intermesh escape moves fork or pallet which then in turn moves balance..

But both escape and fork are loose.

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13 hours ago, nickelsilver said:

Yes. But the pallets would line up with the view holes in green and I can't see anywhere else the escape wheel would go.

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That's why I think the escape jewel is missing.  It should be in the hole circled by the left green circle.


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4 hours ago, rduckwor said:

Then I see no obvious place for the escape wheel in the plate.

The beauty with escapements is the fact there has been so many different solutions throughout time, take for example the escapement in a pin-lever, sometimes you have them setup like a super duper co-axial speed racer.
So in this case one really can't tell what it is or how it is configured until he posts Pictures of the complete movement, before strip  or at least Pictures of the escape Wheel and fork.
 

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