New Video Uploaded - Aligning The Hairspring On The Balance

[Mark]

Just a quick video to show my method of re-aligning the hairspring on the balance staff correctly after prior removal, just in case you have not marked or noted where the stud is before removal.

 

Hope it's helpful to someone :)

 

Watch here...

 

[bobm12]

Thank you Mark, as usual an outstanding and most awaited video nicely complementing the other 2 on the theme! Much appreciated!

[Geo]

Very well illustrated as usual Mark. I will most definitely file this in the memory banks for the future.

[Charlie]

Superb. Another outstanding video...Thanks a bunch! :bow:

[matabog]

Thank you very much!

These three clips (so far) are the single most comprehensive videos I've seen on internet free content. Stuff like that I think you usually have to pay for. This is why I am so gratefull for them and so proud, as a watch enthusiast, to be a member of this forum!

Bogdan

[Lawson]

I didn't like it!

 

 

 

Well, actually I really did like it ... but just wanted to be different and special ^_^

Edited October 10, 2014 by Lawson

[mwilkes]

Fantastic.

[Legarm]

Very timely as I am doing the exact same job at the moment........ brilliant .... many thanks

[atimegoneby]

Thank you Mark, this is a great help for a job I have in my in tray.   :thumbsu:  

[Daniel]

Indeed good video man :)

[Mark]

Thanks guys :)

[Andyclient]

Brilliant thanks

[19Oct2014]

Outstanding! Thank you!

[frenchie]

This is a great video Mark, thank you !! you are pretty good with the video editing... Your first video with slow motion, congrats !!!

[64americandeluxe]

Borderline fantastic Mark!

[noirrac1j]

This is a good video and something that I have been struggling with. I have gone through a few hairsprings because I am currently working on movements that do not have a screw-in stud and it is very hard to press the pin in let alone worry about it being perpendicular to the hairspring. All of the hairpsrings I've suceeded in replacing have been out of poise, i.e. that watch won't run, or runs for a little while and stos. And more than one hairspring has ended up as a twisted or kinked mess when I tried fixing it. I am going to try it again very soon and hope that the only solution won't be to replace the entire balance assembly. It takes all my concentration to do this, so pictures are out!

 

JC

[Mark]

Good luck JC :)

[autowind]

As usual a 1st. class video,  we will have to start calling you Aristotle  ("The master has spoken").   :thumbsu:

[rustycolt]

Confidence restored. I am revisiting a project which had won the last round. Thanks for the insights!

 

One question - if a hairspring is both twisted AND bent, which condition is it best to address first?

[Hambros]

Even though I attended watch repair classes your practical techniques have complimented my training.