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Tightening setting lever screws and unable to set time

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I'm assembling a Herman Becker 1161 that was in working order before cleaning. After tightening the setting lever spring screws I am no longer able to turn the winding stem in the setting position. If I loosen the screws on the setting lever spring I can turn the winding stem just fine. Any thoughts as to what could be the issue?

 

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2 hours ago, watchweasol said:

Sonds like the nib on the setting piece is biting into the stem and preventing it from turning,  When cleaning the parts have you by chance lost a washer/distance piece that prevented it from bottoming ?

Sorry, in my title I said setting lever instead of setting lever spring.

2 hours ago, RichardHarris123 said:

Is the stem in fully?  Have you lubricated the stem? 

Yes, it's fully seated and lubricated.

1 hour ago, HectorLooi said:

The setting wheel seems to be upside down. Try turning it over.

Yep, that was it, thanks 🙂 What is odd is that when I was stripping the movement down I also was making a video of it for this very reason and as I removed that part I noted that the chamfered part of the wheel faced up, which it is in the above photo, but it actually needs to be oriented with the chamfered edge facing down.

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