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Hi all

I was wondering if anyone had come across seconds' hand bushing / pipes sold on their own.

I have a seconds hand with a damaged pipe, and I would like to rivet a new one. I would like to avoid replacing the whole hand if at all possible to maintain originality.

Many thanks

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Seen it done somewhere on the web. But never seen any for sale. Have done a save once. Took the old hand and put it on a new tube from an other second hand. But was very tricky. Drilling a hole  in 0,20 mm is wouldn't be easy either i think.? Or smaller?

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Yes it is 0.20mm. The trouble is that the tailstock on my watchmakers lathe is not perfectly true,  so drilling a 0.20mm hole will be tricky.

If I go down the route of turning it. I will definitely go down the tubing route if available

But I would much rather find something ready made if it is out there!

How did you go about breaking the rivet on the old hand to take the tube? 

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5 hours ago, oli said:

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone had come across seconds' hand bushing / pipes sold on their own.

I have a seconds hand with a damaged pipe, and I would like to rivet a new one. I would like to avoid replacing the whole hand if at all possible to maintain originality.

Many thanks

Never seen them or even contemplated taking on such a tricky job. Far easier to just replace the hand/s

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It is possible to fabricate replacement pipes if you have the tools and time.  I've replaced the pipes on Pierce watch hands using brass tubing purchased off of the Bay; the pipe on the Pierce 134 sweep second hand has an inside diameter of 0.30 - 0.32mm and finding replacements of the right length and diameter can be a chore.  A bit of lathe work will be required to get the outside diameter to fit the hand properly for riveting.

You may also be able to remove the tube from a generic replacement hand and rivet or solder it to your original.  I've no experience with this method though.

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