Revisiting an old hobby
Hello from Scotland.
I recently re-awakened an interest from my youth in watches and clocks. Strangely the catalyst was searching for a replacement hand for a Starrett dial indicator that I picked up for pennies on ebay and which I though might be useful for leveling the bed on my 3d printer. It was missing the dial hand, which looked very like a watch second hand, so that led to a search for a suitable donor watch. Needless to say I then got distracted by the vast array of old time pieces
Citizen revival. This time a 1977 Citizen Crystron 8550A/7300/8565(?) quartz.
Although this watch looked pretty clean on arrival, it was stone dead. I changed the battery and... still dead, so time to investigate.
As you can see next to the -ve battery tab screw hole, there is a slice through the track. This was cased by some overly enthusiastic screw tightening, by whoever changed the battery before I got it, I suspect.
Initially I thought I could get away with simply t