![]() In a perfect world, I would have jars that accommodated my L&R basket. I know that some suggest putting all of this in the ultrasonic, but I am not ready for that yet. I have ordered some petri dishes that are larger and will allow the tuning fork to immerse fully. My glass cup is too small for the tuning fork, so I just squirt one-dip with a syringe. I treat the pawl and index fingers separately by dunking them in one-dip. I also puff off the parts to accelerate evaporation. Then I take the parts out and set them under an incandescent lamp (60 watt) to dry. I run two short cycles, then do a pre rinse in L&R rinse and then a final rinse in same. My method is to use the L&R Fine (which is all that I have) in a mason jar and then in my ultrasonic (small jewelry type). The last few days I have been working on two "learner" accutrons. And I just rebuilt another one for my remote location where I will be doing this work.oh well. Since the manual says to use ultrasonic, I have to deviate from my L&R Master cleaning system that I use for mechanical watches. I am trying to setup a methodology solely for Accutrons. Our Jeff to pay attention to where the fingers are when you're disassembling things 70 careful with the index wheel you can't just toss that in the place. The exception is you do it be very careful on procedures of how things are disassembled and reassembled. It understand the test equipment the electronics part than servicing these is no different than any mechanical watch except. But there is a phasing procedure that seems to work well and then the watch will run at the right rate and still maintain current consumption within specifications.įrank basically if you have really good hand eye coordination because the fingers have to be absolutely perfect. Then there is the battery voltage issue work reverses silver cell. But I doubt that that's going to last forever so at some point in time there will be no more index wheels and circuits even if people are at least one person is rewinding the coils. Fortunately there is eBay where new old stock materializes from time to time. Problem is their vintage and all vintage watches have a problem with parts availability and of course parts wearing out. Although Bulova's certificate if you past was much nicer than everyone else's. So Bulova wasn't the only company with training for their electric watches. But that was also a generation of the watchmaker who didn't understand what to do with any of electric watches. For instance Bulova had an issue with the watch first came out as watchmakers didn't know what the make of this newfangled watch that didn't have a balance wheel. How easy are they? I suppose it depends on a variety of factors. This would then mean that any basically electric watch would qualify including a quartz watch but I'm going to assume tuning fork watches what you're asking about. I found this definition quite interesting ACCUTRON stands for“ ACCUracy through Elec TRONic. I assume you are talking about their tuning fork models ![]() ![]() It's like trying durian for the first time. So until someone finds a way to manufacture new index wheels or finds a stash of NOS index wheels, I'll probably turn down Accutron repair jobs.īut just for the experience, I would encourage you to try it yourself. I have tried to repair some by increasing the tension on the pawl/index fingers to compensate for tooth wear of the index wheel, but that results in higher current consumption and shorter battery life. The design of tuning fork watches is such that if the index wheel stops moving and the fork continues to hum, the pawl/index jewels would probaly damage the index wheel. IMO most non-working Accutrons would need replacing a coil or index wheel or both. The most difficult part in repairing any tuning fork is getting replacement coils and index wheels. Since your father was repairing Accutrons, he would probably have had all the tools. But you'll need a microscope, Accutron test meter, ultrasonic cleaner and Accutron adjustment tools. ![]()
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