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DIY Bronze tweezers

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I love my brass tweezers and use them for 90% of my work. I like that brass is soft and does not scratch parts and it seems to grip parts better than stainless steel. And brass is also non-magnetic, which really helps when working on quartz movements.

However, brass is a little too weak for jobs like pulling back yoke springs.

So I thought of upgrading to bronze. But I can't seem to find curved bronze tweezers. And Cousins price for a pair of Bergeon straight bronze tweezers is around £45.

A couple of months back I had the idea of swapping out the carbon fibre tips of my tweezers and putting in bronze tips. And that is what I did.

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I got a piece of 2.0mm bronze sheet from AliExpress and cut out 2 curved tips and replaced the carbon fibre tips.

I'll probably thin down the tip further gradually to a point where it still has strength to draw back thick yoke springs. 

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