Good peak amplitudes but slow to build up?

[nickelsilver]

9 hours ago, mbwatch said:

Shimming this one for end shake helped tremendously though it's still not great in verticals and I suspect the pivots need burnishing. That's still outside my tooling and skillset so I'm going to leave it alone. Can these end stones be pushed in 0.01 to lessen the shake?

I am pretty sure I have spotted you on reddit under a different name, and honestly I cannot believe your restraint over there. There's a horrible dearth of experience on reddit, and very few people who hang around experienced or not, who are good communicators. This is why I try to squeeze so much out of all of you over here (thank you).

 

 

Mb, folks like me and John will always get the info out there.

 

For those that don't know I'm "Nickelsilver" here, and on Instagram. On a few other websites I'm Maillchort (a misspelling of German Silver in french). They all mean the same thing, and I do too, haha.

Edited March 16 by nickelsilver

[rehajm]

15 hours ago, nickelsilver said:

You do have to move pallet stones, bankings, tweek hairsprings. I do it on every job. Like, 30% of the time I retouch the escapement in some way, and 75% of the time I touch up the hairspring.

It’s kind of reassuring to hear this. As my skills have improved I’ve found myself spending more time on balance and escapement, slight tweaks to overcoils when checking positional error, etc. I was a bit worried I was becoming too ‘fiddly’ and that still may be the case but I button up more movements with tighter deltas and centered regulators. Thanks…