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4 hours ago, JackH said:

I am not sure why he had two separate books like that.

I had never notice the title difference. All I ever knew about was when I'd recommend the book people would end up with the version without they hairspring repairs. Then I also am aware of various editions of the book and I was wondered if that was part of the problem. A lot of times when people do multiple additions over time things get added things get deleted things can change dramatically from whatever it once was at least sometimes.

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10 hours ago, JackH said:

The title that has the "Correcting the bent hairspring" and "Replacing wheel teeth" section is titled "Bench Practices for Watch and Clockmakers" as shown above. The other book without the two sections is titled "Bench Practices for Watch Repairers". I have both because I wanted the hairspring section. I am not sure why he had two separate books like that.

I'm missing the section "Replacing wheel teeth" 😟 

What does it say?

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18 minutes ago, mikepilk said:

I'm missing the section "Replacing wheel teeth"

Now that we've grasped the subtle difference in titles one book excludes clockmakers and my copy embraces clockmaking?

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I do tend to think of replacing teeth as much more common in clock repair which in the first page he explains why

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So years the first page showing the problem. Then the last page Showing the outcome all done by hand. Much nicer if you have access to the gear cutting set up but it's amazing what you can do with the file in a saw if you're careful.

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