Seiko & Citizen Watch Forum Message Archive

someone opened her up and messed with the "taboo" arm, i don't know the correct nomenclature. in doing, or some other tinkering around with the movement, I also suspect that the curled up band of wire (hairspring you are referring to I belived) is messed up. as I said, this is in the larger part of my collection labeled "really needs work, must send to randall some day",

others piles are

"complete junk- fun for me to mess with"

"hmmm, I wonder if I can fix this. but it will probably cost a lot more when I have to send it in"

"just needs some oem parts- will send to coserv"

"just needs basic service, will send to coserv"

I really want to learn how to clean movements, but I think it involves taking them apart and putting them in an ultrasonic machine and then putting back together, way beyond me. I wish taking out the movement, blasting it with carb cleaner, then wd40 would do the trick, but have not done so as I suspect that doing so may not actually be in the best interest of the watches.