Wash cleaning baskets

[Neverenoughwatches]

Eyup good watch people, a little post regarding an indian wash basket I've just had delived. These are the cleaning baskets that come with the janta pearl machines if anyone is thinking of trying them,cost to UK around £80 delivered. Quality is sort of ok, the run out from the lid was terrible then amplified down to the basket to the point of almost unusable. An hour or so filing a bit here and a bit there improved it, finished with a run out of 1-2mm at the bottom of the basket which makes much better. I would say its worth the price even with the added adjustment. Runs well in the cleaning solution. 

[RichardHarris123]

Sorry but £80 is too much for something that is not fit for purpose. 

[Waggy]

7 hours ago, Neverenoughwatches said:

cleaning baskets that come with the janta pearl machine

I have a pearl machine and have replaced the large metal basket with an Elma blue plastic one, for the reasons you mentioned above. The Elma basket works well and is 100% compatible with the machine, jars and parts sub-baskets.

Just a quick observation, the 3 pronged black spring thing is meant to be permanently attached to the central post/axle on the machine and not removed with the baskets. You need to remove the screw/but on the bottom of the post and attach the spring and the reattach the screw/bolt. I'll take a picture when I get home. Not sure if this is applicable or needed for your machine?

[Neverenoughwatches]

2 hours ago, Waggy said:

I have a pearl machine and have replaced the large metal basket with an Elma blue plastic one, for the reasons you mentioned above. The Elma basket works well and is 100% compatible with the machine, jars and parts sub-baskets.

Just a quick observation, the 3 pronged black spring thing is meant to be permanently attached to the central post/axle on the machine and not removed with the baskets. You need to remove the screw/but on the bottom of the post and attach the spring and the reattach the screw/bolt. I'll take a picture when I get home. Not sure if this is applicable or needed for your machine?

Thanks waggy looking at a few videos i did notice about the spring , the post i have is home made from a drill bit, the basket didn't come with the janta post and the spring actually fitted poorly into the basket so had to be altered. I'll be making a new one in time. The wobble was quite easy to fix using a reference point at the top and the botton of the basket . Filling small amounts off the locking tabs, it runs ok now but it was terrible.

9 hours ago, RichardHarris123 said:

Sorry but £80 is too much for something that is not fit for purpose. 

I agree Richard but sending it back to india and relying on getting a refund from an honest seller is a risk. An hour spent adusting it to work correctly i dont mind and its a big improvement to what i was using. I was disappointed but i knew from HectorLooi's description of his that there could be a problem. He mentioned the same issue and worked around it, i figured i would be able to do the same. I dont recommend buying one unless someone is prepared to take that chance it can be corrected, 4 up to now I've heard have this problem, even on a complete janta pearl machine. I'm happy , i could have been happier and i wasn't going to pay 3+ times that for an elma basket.