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hey guys

Working on a doxa it has a copper dial and copper dial feet. 1` is missing. The 1 that is still attached is 1 mm in width. Can you get dial feet to size? I have found like 100 bergeon dial feet at cousins but it gives no sizes it just says bergeon 213.

also the mainspring is 1.45x8.5x0.10x250 auto you just dont seem able to get them as short as 250. This seems such strange sizes but according to ranfft correct

any help appreciated.

chewers

gary

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On 7/20/2021 at 11:31 AM, gary17 said:

Can you get dial feet to size? I have found like 100 bergeon dial feet at cousins but it gives no sizes it just says bergeon 213.

I think we may have one of those assortments at work and if we do I will try to remember to measure the diameters for you.

otherwise what people do for dial feet used to purchase copper electrical wire of the right size

then your mainspring sounds like it might be this one at this link. A lot of times I'll find minor discrepancies on some of dimensions in the various sites so here it's just a little bit longer you go down the list and see if your watches on the list though.

http://cgi.julesborel.com/cgi-bin/matcgi2?ref=q}B~UTI

then looks like they have it in stock

http://www.julesborel.com/s.nl/it.A/id.28984/.f

 

 

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as you've ordered them when they come perhaps you could measure them for future reference for anyone else's asking? I'm sure we had some dial feet at work but they seem to have disappeared? That's one of the peculiar things about where I work things can go missing or be relocated to other places.

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