Saturday, July 9, 2011

A transformation of an instance of cross-wheel cover repair

Said repair is to restore the factory state, in fact, sometimes also need to repair the transformation, that the purpose is to correct the factory on the existing design and manufacturing defects.
Recently repaired a special old watches, where the old mechanical things, wear is evident, I found this round table movement across the inside cover has a clear position on the friction traces. Is a cross-wheel drive wheels, it is also a speed round, round and points it makes when the wheel speed ratio becomes 1:12, the time adjustment in the allocation of the needle, is it the rotating table to rotate into the hands of .

    Move the watch is running, cross-wheel speed is very low, about every 3 to 4 hours to turn around; of dial needles only, it will become the driving wheel, and if the flexibility of a small center wheel with relatively large, So when the dial needle will feel very tight, then wear across the wheel will be prominent, including the gear tooth profile of the mating surface wear, wheel wear and tear across the main plywood, as well as inter-and cross-wheel friction between the wheel cover . In the watch, you will often hear the Azeri sector, said axial gap and radial clearance in these two words, any activity inside the watch movement parts are the two gaps, but very small and strictly controlled.
    The gap must be reasonable, but it is not large, such as cross wheel wheels, drive the process once to eat fresh, it will also have tilt, it will be rubbing across the wheel cover; often cross the main plywood wheel position, will make a ring bulge, this goal is also to reduce friction (see photo).

    In other types of watch movement, the wheel well of the cross-piece circular motion play a small round hole, the contact area is reduced, and the pile made of cylindrical cross-corundum wheel (manual drill), such as early The ENICAR watches, this watch the dial on the back made a logo, euphemistically called "DiamondMax STAR JEWELS". All of these designs are intended to reduce friction and wear this location. Watch their precision, so fine adjustment and correction in between, where necessary to reduce friction reduction across the wheel cover that need to punch out a bump, changing face contact to point contact. Way is to use a small sharp punch, just to have a little bit out on a high line.

    Must ensure that the gap problem, this result did not allow a reasonable gap across the wheel, and then paste in the amount of fat increases the friction point, things had settled. In all things, there is a trick I very much agree that turned small victories, to have disposed of every reasonable perfect, watch repair to worry that bad?
    Wanted to do good service to watch this line, you should first be a "thinker" himself as a craftsman would be low, watch repair should be the first based on the theory, then the experience for the more old watches, we might do "transformation" can do "reform" that are the master!

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