Staff replacement, balance wheel wobble
So, I've reached another major milestone on my journey in watch repair. I have now replaced my very first balance staff (Tissot calibre 781), and I feel pretty good about myself! ?
Replacing a balance staff is likely not the first thing you do when you start servicing and repairing watches as you need some expensive tools. Of course, you should also have developed some skill in handling small parts with tweezers. You also need the know-how, and that was mainly provided to me by my fellow Sw
I think you are the only who can see if the rivet made a good and even spread.
I mostly only use two stakes, I see you say narrow and wide. I guess the black art of this staking business is like taking your driver’s license, in the beginning you do all by the book but thirty years later you picked up some bad habits.
With the risk of getting bombs sent to me by mail I try to show with some illustrations, which don’t need any focus set, and which shows approximately what should happen with th
