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By SittingRabbit · Posted
Hello, new to this forum. I'm in need of a clutch wheel for my Gruen 877s Techni-Quadron. -
By nickelsilver · Posted
Joe, I know you have this feeling that drive wheels on an extended 3rd wheel pivot go flying around but I gotta say in 20+ years I've never opened a watch with a loose drive wheel and never had a comeback from taking one off and refitting it. The forces here are tiny, and just a little friction is needed. Hands are usually fitted much tighter. As to cleaning up that pinion, it could easily go in a jacot with an appropriate carrier (drive dog) in a lantern, and polished up with either a thin burnisher or polishing paste on pegwood. It definitely needs some cleaning up. If you have a lathe, try chucking the pinion in the headstock, the a piece of pegwood in the tailstock, run the lathe slowly and hold the long spindly bit true with brass tweezers while you bring up the chucked pegwood. Should bore into it, then provide enough support to do the finishing work near the pinion. If the far pivot end is also manky (looks ok in photo) just twirling some pegwood down it should clean it up. Continue pushing the tailstock pegwood in the above example should work.
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Ammar 16
Hello everybody
I came across this ladies watch while searching for something to practice on since it's been a while, I absolutely hate working on ladies watches they're so small and they take way to much time at my skill level but this one looked different to me so I thought I'd give it a chance but I wanted to ask about oiling non jeweled pivots (this watch is either really old or really crappy Idk) do I oil them the same way I usually oil the jeweled ones? and I want to know any information about this movement since there's no markings on it or on the dial, I haven't bought it yet I want some information on it before I buy it Idk why tbh
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