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Watch cleaning/lubrication
My wife's watch stopped working. It's a quartz/analog Armitron
movement. I changed the battery, and it worked for a while then stopped again. I remembered watching a show about the debunking of Uri Geller ( http://site.uri-geller.com/ ) and how you could "psychicly" start most stopped watches simply by warming them in your hands. I tried that, and it worked. Then, after it stopped again, I warmed it in my hands and it started again. So, either I have great psychic powers or the works in this watch are gummed up. I'm guessing the latter. How best to clean and relube this watch? Thanks. |
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rangerssuck wrote:
.... How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to a professional. The cheap ones dip it in a solvent, maybe use ultrasound, the spin it to remove solvent. $25 5 years ago. The expensive ones take it apart and clean each piece. $150 last year. Bob |
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On May 7, 5:09*pm, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
rangerssuck wrote: ... How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to a professional. The cheap ones dip it in a solvent, maybe use ultrasound, the spin it to remove solvent. *$25 5 years ago. The expensive ones take it apart and clean each piece. *$150 last year. Bob The watch probably wouldn't cost much more than $25 to replace. So, what kind of solvent? I have an ultrasonic - maybe 91% isopropyl? Does it need any lubrication after cleaning? |
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On Sat, 7 May 2011 14:29:37 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck
wrote: On May 7, 5:09*pm, Bob Engelhardt wrote: rangerssuck wrote: ... How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to a professional. The cheap ones dip it in a solvent, maybe use ultrasound, the spin it to remove solvent. *$25 5 years ago. The expensive ones take it apart and clean each piece. *$150 last year. Bob The watch probably wouldn't cost much more than $25 to replace. So, what kind of solvent? I have an ultrasonic - maybe 91% isopropyl? Does it need any lubrication after cleaning? sounds like a reasonable guess. I'd put it in a small container of IPA and sit that in the larger bath of water. Saves filling the whole cleaner and works just as well. I'd try it dry after cleaning. I know nothing about this, but it doesn't stop me from giving advice. Karl |
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On May 7, 8:19*pm, Karl Townsend
wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011 14:29:37 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck wrote: On May 7, 5:09*pm, Bob Engelhardt wrote: rangerssuck wrote: ... How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to a professional. The cheap ones dip it in a solvent, maybe use ultrasound, the spin it to remove solvent. *$25 5 years ago. The expensive ones take it apart and clean each piece. *$150 last year. Bob The watch probably wouldn't cost much more than $25 to replace. So, what kind of solvent? I have an ultrasonic - maybe 91% isopropyl? Does it need any lubrication after cleaning? sounds like a reasonable guess. I'd put it in a small container of IPA and sit that in the larger bath of water. Saves filling the whole cleaner and works just as well. *I'd try it dry after cleaning. I know nothing about this, but it doesn't stop me from giving advice. Karl That's pretty much what I was thinking, but I also know nothing about this (except the electronics part, which would be fine with this treatment). I'm wondering if I could do this without taking it further apart - just taking the back off. I'm not sure what holds the rest of it together, but I suspect that to really disassemble it would require some special tools which I don't have. I did, by the way, use the HF watch case opener to remove the back. It worked fine. BTW, Karl, did you ever resolve your radio interference problem, or is it going to wait until the freezing weather returns? |
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On Sat, 7 May 2011 17:45:22 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck
wrote: On May 7, 8:19*pm, Karl Townsend wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011 14:29:37 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck wrote: On May 7, 5:09*pm, Bob Engelhardt wrote: rangerssuck wrote: ... How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to a professional. The cheap ones dip it in a solvent, maybe use ultrasound, the spin it to remove solvent. *$25 5 years ago. The expensive ones take it apart and clean each piece. *$150 last year. Bob The watch probably wouldn't cost much more than $25 to replace. So, what kind of solvent? I have an ultrasonic - maybe 91% isopropyl? Does it need any lubrication after cleaning? sounds like a reasonable guess. I'd put it in a small container of IPA and sit that in the larger bath of water. Saves filling the whole cleaner and works just as well. *I'd try it dry after cleaning. I know nothing about this, but it doesn't stop me from giving advice. Karl That's pretty much what I was thinking, but I also know nothing about this (except the electronics part, which would be fine with this treatment). I'm wondering if I could do this without taking it further apart - just taking the back off. I'm not sure what holds the rest of it together, but I suspect that to really disassemble it would require some special tools which I don't have. I did, by the way, use the HF watch case opener to remove the back. It worked fine. BTW, Karl, did you ever resolve your radio interference problem, or is it going to wait until the freezing weather returns? I delayed the need to run it again. Long story short, I'm in a government program for integrated pest management (IPM). They require an advisor. This guy wants me to buy an expensive product called Specware. All it does is record leaf wetness and temperature to a data file. I do this today to strip chart on paper. He agreed to let me wait on the Specware purchase. I bet I'll need it next year. So, there will be a future thread on how to convert a leaf wetness sensor (open when dry, 1,000,000 ohm wet) into a 0 to 10 volt signal. I think I'll also do a temp sensor that works on the same principal at the same time. Karl |
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On Sat, 07 May 2011 17:09:45 -0400, Bob Engelhardt
wrote: rangerssuck wrote: ... How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to a professional. The cheap ones dip it in a solvent, maybe use ultrasound, the spin it to remove solvent. $25 5 years ago. The expensive ones take it apart and clean each piece. $150 last year. Bob, you should have told him "A 120psi blow gun and a can of spray lithium will fix you right up, rangersucker." -- The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. -- Ayn Rand |
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On May 7, 6:24*pm, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 07 May 2011 17:09:45 -0400, Bob Engelhardt wrote: rangerssuck wrote: ... How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to a professional. The cheap ones dip it in a solvent, maybe use ultrasound, the spin it to remove solvent. *$25 5 years ago. The expensive ones take it apart and clean each piece. *$150 last year.. Bob, you should have told him "A 120psi blow gun and a can of spray lithium will fix you right up, rangersucker." -- The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *-- Ayn Rand **** you too, Lsrry. You assholes bitch that I don't post anything on topic (which is not correct), and then you come up with this half- witted mean-spirited remark? Go **** yourself. |
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, rangerssuck wrote: My wife's watch stopped working. It's a quartz/analog Armitron movement. I changed the battery, and it worked for a while then stopped again. I remembered watching a show about the debunking of Uri Geller ( http://site.uri-geller.com/ ) and how you could "psychicly" start most stopped watches simply by warming them in your hands. I tried that, and it worked. Then, after it stopped again, I warmed it in my hands and it started again. So, either I have great psychic powers or the works in this watch are gummed up. I'm guessing the latter. How best to clean and relube this watch? Thanks. Maybe your new battery is dead, it's not unheard of. Warming it might be slightly increasing terminal voltage above the watches cut off voltage. There is not much to get gummed up in a quartz watch... mechanically they are just a stepper motor driving a gear train. No big loads on anything, or fussy escapements. I've heard some even use plastic 'run dry' gearing. Erik PS, There is another group you might want run your question by: news:alt.horology Not much activity there any more, but now and again someone will post a question/comment that raises a flurry of responses. |
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On May 7, 3:00*pm, rangerssuck wrote:
My wife's watch stopped working. It's a quartz/analog Armitron movement. I changed the battery, and it worked for a while then stopped again. I remembered watching a show about the debunking of Uri Geller (http://site.uri-geller.com/) and how you could "psychicly" start most stopped watches simply by warming them in your hands. I tried that, and it worked. Then, after it stopped again, I warmed it in my hands and it started again. So, either I have great psychic powers or the works in this watch are gummed up. I'm guessing the latter. How best to clean and relube this watch? Thanks. Unless it's got great sentimental value, haul off to wally world and select another. Not jesting here, these things aren't made to be fixed. You can soak it in whatever and all you'll have is wasted time and soggy junk. The watch face probably won't like the immersion and if you use a solvent, the paint may disappear along with the crystal going opaque. Chance of that approach getting it going again is about nil. The analog style ones have a ratchet type of mechanism that usually wears out anyway, some faster than others. I rate them these days as a one-battery or a two-battery watch, depending. Sometimes they'll last long enough to go through two batteries, at which time the battery cost will have exceeded the cost of the watch originally. The digital types don't have anything to wear out, usually they just get scratched up. You CAN get decent watches that will last years like the old mechanical ones, they'll run about what the old high-end mechanicals did, though. Generally fixing those involves replacing the movement, the companies make enough extra for spares. Mail it in, get another for $20 "service charge", is the way that works. Just depends if you just want to tell the time or want jewelry, if you spend more than $10 for a watch, you're buying jewelry. Like a watch enough, buy two and take the battery out of the backup. Stan |
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rangerssuck wrote:
How best to clean and relube this watch? Take it to the jeweler. Hope This Helps! Rich |
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