Jump to content

balance wheel wobble

Nora

By Nora
in Watch Repairs Help & Advice

 Share

Recommended Posts

watchweasol Distinguished Member

watchweasol

Posted
Posted

A superb offer JD,        both a scholar and a Gentleman.   encouragement costs nothing as does a kind word.

And Nora a  If you never try anything you gain nothing . Like you a lot of years ago I changed balance staffs using a set of punches and a 36 hole stake and got good at it and glad i did it so when I use the staking tool I appreciate how good it is.  So keep raising to the challenge:thumbsu:

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites
HectorLooi Distinguished Member

HectorLooi

Posted
Posted
On 7/22/2020 at 2:03 AM, Nora said:

I have an "Automatic Balance Staff Remover" made by the M-B Tool Manufacturing Co. Sorry about the picture quality. I only have my what's only phone.

 

 

 

 

While we wait for JD's truing and poising video, we  an help you with your photo taking skills.

A smartphone camera is capable quite decent photos, as evident in your photos. The problem with the photos you sent is in the lighting. I think your photos will turn out better if you turned off the flash and use ambient light or your work light.

If you require close up shots, there are clip-on macro lenses with a ringlight to give shadowless lighting on AliX. I just got another one last week. I'll search for the link.

In the meantime, relax, enjoy and don't fret over the balance wheel. I think all of us here have screwed up worse than this. And when you get good at doing difficult stuff, it's the simple stuff that will get you. 

Don't ask me how I know. :D

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Nora Member

Nora

Posted
  • Author
Posted
9 minutes ago, HectorLooi said:

If you require close up shots, there are clip-on macro lenses with a ringlight to give shadowless lighting on AliX. I just got another one last week. I'll search for the link.

In the meantime, relax, enjoy and don't fret over the balance wheel. I think all of us here have screwed up worse than this. And when you get good at doing difficult stuff, it's the simple stuff that will get you. 

I would like that.

 

LOL I don't see it as a screw up, I'ts part of my learning style. Jump right in and see what skills I am lacking to get the job done. It's only screwed up if a professional says it's hopeless. Then it goes on the shelf for wile till I can prove them as having prejudged it's demise

 

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
VWatchie Distinguished Member

VWatchie

Posted
Posted
6 hours ago, Nora said:

It's only screwed up if a professional says it's hopeless

When I was young someone told me "You have not lost until you give up". I often think about that when a task or situation feels daunting.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
VWatchie Distinguished Member

VWatchie

Posted
Posted
On 7/23/2020 at 10:51 AM, VWatchie said:

When I was young someone told me "You have not lost until you give up". I often think about that when a task or situation feels daunting.

Sorry for being OT, but I just can't help myself! ;)

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
    ~ Winston Churchill

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Jon
      What are these Seitz B-Jewels?

      By Jon · Posted

      I picked up a similar amount of these jewels some years ago in a watch and clock fair. Every now and then they come in handy. This week I've got a rubbed in bombe jewel in the balance cock that is cracked and needs replacing. Very handy to have a vintage assortment of these type of jewels!
    • Stirky
      Diagram for 6497 motion works

      By Stirky · Posted

      Thanks Jon.
    • Jon
      Diagram for 6497 motion works

      By Jon · Posted

      Great diagram with the teeth and pinion count. Simple way to reduce the speed of the hour wheel by the 12:1 minute wheel. Genius and yet so simple. Always good to reinforce the principal by what you have done in your drawing. Keep doing that. I had a drawing on my wall for years showing me this which is very similar to the drawing you have done. Here's a formula to work out the beats per hour of a watch movement. The movement's BPH is dictated by the wheel teeth and pinion count and the hairspring being vibrated to the correct BPH by finding the pinning up point on the hairspring using a vibrating tool.  The reason in the formula there is X2 on the top line is because there are two pallet stones.
    • DDean
      Incabloc Lyre Spring & Low Earth Orbit

      By DDean · Posted

      So I just wanted to say "thank you" again.  The angle is the key bit it seems and yes, it did basically just fall, or float, back into position when I got it lined up just right. I had meant to add that now that I see how it goes in, I totally see how it came out in the first place, and that whomever cloned the original movement didn't pay much attention to the fine details around the setting or how it interfaces with the balance cock or the "rings" on the regulator and/or stud carrier arms.
    • transporter
      Commando special

      By transporter · Posted

      Well I’ve never seen the make before and cannot find any info, I haven’t got it just yet it’s been left to me among a 1970’s sea master and a mid size yeoman. But if anyone has any information on this one please feel free to enlighten me, many thanks 
×
×
  • Create New...