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Re: stainless steel Quadron [message #6260 is a reply to message #6093]

Mon, 16 November 2015 05:36

JackW
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Well, I gotta say thank you to Jason. He sent me a staff and I had the watch up and running. It was cased even. As it was sitting on the timing machine, there was some noise in the trace so I decided to run it through the demagnetizer. The noise stopped as did the watch. I opened it up to look and some how the staff broke. I've almost always run my watches as the last step through the demagnetizer. The flabergasting aspect is that it happened twice on this watch. The first time I chalked it up to the staff pivot was already cracked and it went. I'm not of the opinion that a) I've been lucky in the past and b) these 157 staffs are more fragile. Anyway, watch is running now. Getting good at cutting out staffs and sharpening my carbide gravers.

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Also, the staffs from Borel are a wee-bit small on the diameter of the roller seat. The one Jason sent me was a spot-on fit. The one from Borel came in a envelope that was marked Bestfit. I had to do a little peening with the staking set to reduce the diameter of the hole of the roller at one end so that it would stay on. They are friction fit; just needed more friction.

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