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
The Timex is sitting ticking and waiting for some cosmetic upgrades, so I turned my attention to a little French number.
The first problem, and the reason it has been sitting in the dead pile for some time was the case back, which refused to yield to threats grunts and all of the standard tools and expletives reserved for this task. Nothing for it but to bring out the big guns.
Once the sesame was opened the treasures within were revealed.
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