Baggie catches flyers! But, not all is rosy.

[LittleWatchShop]

Somebody posted the idea of putting the movement in a zip lock baggie and poke a hole through it to work on places springs love to fly.

I tried it this evening.  It worked.  Flew off a couple of times, but could not get out of the bag!!

That was the good news.  I am still making dumb-shit mistakes.  Manged to recover from them successfully, but there is no excuse for my sloppiness.

Each time I make a mistake, it pushes out my GRAND REPAIR--my Valjoux 72 chronograph.  Right now it is looking like...sitting on the shelf until Fall.  Ugh.

Re Valjoux, I am negotiating with my brother to buy his--I dunno...just in case.  Our Dad gave us both one back when they were $75.

[LittleWatchShop]

On this same watch, C11KAS-2, I noticed that the power was funky.  Felt funny when winding.  Had some difficulty letting power off when I first started the tear down.

I got this off of Ebay...really as a future donor if I needed it, but figured I needed practice.  Never done an automatic wind anyway.

So, I cleaned it and got it running (after recovering from above-mentioned mistakes).  Still had the funky winding issue.

Well, I figured it out.  Missing the crown-wheel ring.  No wonder.  Must have been lost during a previous repair.

I found one in Italy on Ebay...have ordered it.  Will ponder an interim solution.

[Nucejoe]

2 hours ago, LittleWatchShop said:

Somebody posted the idea of putting the movement in a zip lock baggie and poke a hole through it to work on places springs love to fly.

I tried it this evening.  It worked.  Flew off a couple of times, but could not get out of the bag!!

 

 

Here is the title to the original thread in which I purposely showed a SMALL ZIPLOC BAG. 

            " Tips on removal , cleaning and reinstalation of fiddly cab jewels "

The bag Idea occured to me over thirty years ago and has never failed. The story has undergone many changes eversince, cutest version was someone made a plastic tent to carry out the task under, run short on oxygen under the tent a got dizzy. 

Regs