Tell me what you think of this.

[oldhippy]

15 minutes ago, Folkvisor said:

This is really interesting but way beyond me.

I just test myself by putting everything on the bench, mixing it up a little, and then making myself name all the little rascals and telling myself what they are all for. I figure if I know what they are I should be able to put it all back together. LOL

Dave

That is a good way of going about it, just make sure you don't have anything leftover.

[Folkvisor]

Like my father-in-laws tractor? After he fixed it and it was running just fine he showed me a box of parts that he told me the tractor never needed in the first place. 

Dave

[oldhippy]

On 04/02/2017 at 5:09 PM, Folkvisor said:

Like my father-in-laws tractor? After he fixed it and it was running just fine he showed me a box of parts that he told me the tractor never needed in the first place. 

Dave

[sperki77]

Reminds me of a t-shirt I saw... (found it on www.teezily.com/extra1).

[sperki77]

When I was a little girl, I took a watch apart, taped every part to a piece of cardboard and wrote the names of each of the parts next to them.  I never put that watch back together... in reality, in my lifetime, I have thoroughly destroyed way more watches than I've ever repaired. 

Dave, I think you're a brave man for challenging yourself like that... I'm not there yet.

[fjseal]

I've destroyed more hairsprings than I have any right to!

Edited February 6, 2017 by fjseal

[Folkvisor]

Well, I ripped off a regulating pin trying to carefully remove a hairspring. The hairspring is fine but, of course, the watch doesn't work very well.

I'm not even going to try to put another pin on the lever. Time to buy a whole new balance cock methinks...

Years and years ago, I was a student when our music school class was invited to a rehearsal of Byron Janus playing The Emperor with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. One of the students almost hung over him watching him play. During a short break she asked him, "Maestro Janus, how can you play so fast and play all the right notes?" He answered, "Hell, I don't play all the right notes!" 

So, there you go...

[MilTimeCan]

7 hours ago, sperki77 said:

in reality, in my lifetime, I have thoroughly destroyed way more watches than I've ever repaired. 

I thought I was alone on this earth with this affliction.

You have made my day .

[oldhippy]

Could we keep this on the topic please.

[clockboy]

Subject matter gone right of piste so locked.

 

Clockboy