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If something looks super delicate, it probably is!

(yes, that's the dial side shock setting spring thing snapped in half!)

Fortunately this was my "learning" movement, the seagull st3601 that I've been following Mr. Lovick's lessons with. Now, I could try to source the part, and I think I might make an intellectual exercise of it, but I don't imagine that it's worth the shipping for a learning device to repair rather than get another movement and try again.

On the bright side, I learned a bunch in this teardown, and the train of wheels went together very nicely, and it was the first time I'd wound a mainspring (using the rs-winders 3D printed winding tools) so on the whole, this was a positive despite the failure.

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I'm just about to dive into this today, having watched the courses (and built a bunch of Seiko mods).

You now have a parts movement, if nothing else. I'm glad I actually have two ST36s to play with, three if I count the Rotate kit I built and never wear. 🙂

Thanks for the pointer to the RS winders. So I can get my printer going, (and because I haven't taken anything apart yet) what size is the ST36 barrel?

-Zandr

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10 hours ago, Zandr said:

what size is the ST36 barrel?

The largest winder I had printed was the 12.5 and it was probably 'too' small Probably could have used a 14.5 or 15 from the large set that I haven't printed yet.

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11 hours ago, nrm said:

The largest winder I had printed was the 12.5 and it was probably 'too' small Probably could have used a 14.5 or 15 from the large set that I haven't printed yet.

Gotcha. I'm printing a full set at 15.0 now, I'll run a 14.5 winder and plunger as soon as that finishes.

Thanks!

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