viernes, 24 de mayo de 2019

aligning the six pivots

After spending a healthy couple hours rebuilding two of these movements of learned a couple things: 
First, if you rearrange the letters and numbers in A2813 it spells “Satan’s illegitimate demon spawn”. 
Second, after struggling through aligning the six pivots over and over - I finally realized the dang click is constantly in the way. I ended up using a very small piece of rodico to hold it open while I set the bridge. Voila! I set it first shot after that. With the click not pushing on the  paw winding wheel it stood straight and made life easier. Just be careful not to place the rodico in a way that get it pinched and gummed in there once assembled.

 Another trick is just to turn it 180° and put it back after the plate has been mounted. It works perfectly



sábado, 4 de mayo de 2019

Mainspring Barrel




Step 1. Open the Mainspring Barrel
Put your fingers on the edge and press down.

Mainspring Barrel Opened    


Step 2. Pick out the Arbor (right)




Step 3.Pull out the Mainspring slowly and carefully. 




Pay attention on the end of the Mainspring and the Barrel in green circle.



Step 4. Assembly



According to the winding direction, place the Mainspring and the Barrel as shown on the left hand side.


Step 5. Pick up the Mainspring without changing its direction.

    

Step6. Put the Mainspring back into the Barrel.



The slot on the barrel should hold the Mainspring in position (green circle)



   
Step 7. Put the Arbor back and close it.



BARILLET
Lubrification de l’arbre de barillet avec de la graisse aux pivotements avec le tambour ainsi qu’avec la platine et le pont.


jueves, 2 de mayo de 2019

oiling swiss lever



Methods 6 and 7:
There are two main alternative methods for lubricating the pallet stones:-

1. The lubricant is applied to the stones before the lever is fitted in place in
the movement. This requires care to avoid the oil being transferred to other
components.

2. The lubrication is applied to the stones after the lever is fitted using one of
the following methods:-
a. The lubricant is applied with the lever stationary before the balance is
fitted. The oil is applied to the impulse plane of the exit stone, usually
from the top and the lever moved from side to side to advance the
teeth. When three or four escape wheel teeth have passed the process
is repeated until all the teeth have been equally and evenly lubricated.

b. The movement is turned over and the exit stone is lubricated through
the inspection hole in the main plate and the lever moved from side to
side to advance the teeth. When three or four escape wheel teeth have
passed the process is repeated until all the teeth have been equally and
evenly lubricated.

c. A small amount of the lubricant is applied to each of the escape wheel
teeth.
The movement is turned over and the escape wheel teeth are
lubricated through the inspection hole in the main plate. The oiler is
charged with oil / grease and then lowered to a position that allows
the moving escape wheel teeth tips to pass through the oil/grease, one
by one, until all teeth and pallet stones have been equally and evenly
lubricated.
A little on a few of the escape wheel teeth, by the action of the watch it will distribute the oil to the pallet pins this in turn will oil the rest of the teeth on the escapement wheel.