Mainspring service

[bricem13]

Hi

 

Well what is the right way to service the mainspring ?

My past experience is removing it by hand, cleaning, grease on barrel wall and reinstall by hand again. In general i ended up with quite greasy hands any therefore i would like to improve my technique.

I also broke a few springs putting them back in, when putting in the end with the short "spring" (dunno how it is called).

 

Best regards

 

 

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[Nucejoe]

I don,t discard the washers,  the hairspring in which I have previously used. Hand wind used MS inside em, adjust the height as I like, rinse, let dry. Ready to insert into the barrel as I would new ones.

 

 

[transporter]

That made no sense at all mate. For a mainspring you can remove by hand, and you are correct with the grease and light oiling. As for putting the mainspring back in the barrel, I generally put mine in by hand but I also have a number of mainspring winders, no matter how I put them in the barrel I always wear either finger cots or latex gloves. These stop your hands getting greasy but more importantly stop contamination of the mainspring from the oils in your skin.