On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:39:05 -0400, "Jack Denver"
wrote:

And into your deep pile rug where you will be unable to find it. Or better
yet the spring bar will fall apart from corrosion and the spring and ends
will go flying.

This brings us to one of the #1 problems in watchmaking which just
emphasizes what a bitch it is to work on a watch. The parts are really
really tiny and once they fall off your bench (or go flying off under spring
pressure or propelled by your tweezers) it is hell to find them again.
Somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle where all the second socks are, there are
piles of watch parts that have disappeared.

What is bewildering to me, is that at times a part simply drops off
the bench never to be found. You followed it falling as far as you
could, so you know where it had to land. Sweep up ten times, nada.
You'll generally trip over it, straight after the new part arrives in
the post. :-)

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Regards, Frank