Hello from Melbourne Australia

[MakingSpace]

Hi All,

Getting feverishly into watches (maybe a bit too much!), and probably out of my depth. I have a mentor who is a thousand steps ahead of me so I am very lucky. I'm finding tools and equipment as enjoyable to source and restore as the watches although waiting on eBay is sometimes a killer. I hope I get to chat with you all at some stage.

Cheers,

Ian

[oldhippy]

Welcome to this friendly forum. Having someone to help you is very helpful;  don't get into bad habits.

[ecodec]

Hi Ian, Welcome to this excellent forum. Listen to oldhippy, go that way and you will get the skill with practice. Regards, Mike. PS. I had a mentor who is now gone and I remember most of what he taught me 60 years ago. Part time 3 eves a week for 3.5 years and he was Ex. Vacheron Constantin Geneva,  as a young man. I am a bit old for it now tho.  but still keep going. oldhippy helped me out recently !. Thank you all.

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[furrybarry]

Might as well tag along here too rather than start another thread. Also Melbournian, also fascinated. Winemaker, electronics and mechanical tech in real life. 

What's your plan for a cleaning setup Ian?

Cheers,

Chris

[MakingSpace]

Hi Chris,
A friend and I have restored an L & R Master cleaner. Nearly caught me out when I got it off EBay as someone had replaced the wiring but not up the post (there they were original and out of sight). The cleaner would only rotate in one direction, which was fine but I decided I wanted both directions and rewiring it is when we found the old wiring and it was basically bare. Not sure why the whole body wasn’t live! Just lucky. Anyway, works really well now.
What are you thinking of doing?
Cheers
Ian



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[oldhippy]

That’s swell to have a cleaning machine. Make sure you buy a good cleaner and rinse. In my days I used L & R. I don’t really know what is around today. Members on here might be able to help.

[MakingSpace]

Thanks Oldhippy, I’ll see where I can get it from. So far I have washed one watch but used Shelite. Is that no good?


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[oldhippy]

I do not know what that is.

Here is a link to cleaners and rinse. For your machine you only need a good basic cleaner and rince.

https://www.cousinsuk.com/category/watch-cleaning-rinsing-fluids

[MakingSpace]

Excellent, thanks Oldhippy


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