Hi, I have been a WATCHMAKER for well over 60 years, and during this time have recoiled a few hundred balance springs may I respectively suggest that you do away with the tweezers and get a couple of very small sewing needles grinding the tip of the eye end down until you are left with a two prong fork, pushing the pointed end into a short length of peg wood for a handle. You will find it a lot easier to get the coils into the fork and manipulate the spring both for recoiling and flattening, I have used this process for over 55 years with great success as you don't have to worry about opening and closing the tweezers. It's a old master's trick that I learnt during my apprenticeship over 60 years ago.
@szbalogh
4 жыл бұрын
Those old tricks are very hard to learn for a hobbyist like me 😄 Thank You very very much for sharing!
@frodriguezpc
2 жыл бұрын
Comment of the weeeeeek!! I came here looking for information on how to address this, and I think yours is the best tip I could have found. Off to my wife's sewing kit!
@jonka1
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. Simple but effective advice.
@hohohaha999
8 ай бұрын
That's a bitty little picklefork
@Wilkie002
3 жыл бұрын
What is wrong with all of us? Spending our evenings at the edge our seats in suspense and joy, cheering at times, despairing at others, our horological hearts racing with the music as if witnessing a baby mountain goat ambling along the face of a cliff. All ends well, though, and we can now sleep in peace. Thank you, sir.
@IMakeWatches
8 ай бұрын
This is a great video! Teaching the slow and careful theory of hairspring repair! Thank you! I put a link to this one on my channel!
@szbalogh
8 ай бұрын
Thank you 😊
@IMakeWatches
8 ай бұрын
@@szbalogh No, thank you!
@billa1974
5 жыл бұрын
you're not a watchrepair addict, you're a genius, you made a movie of this! min 10.30 I'l be laughing till tomorrow
@szbalogh
5 жыл бұрын
:)
@wargamingrefugee9065
4 жыл бұрын
Hello, There's a series of videos here on KZitem which have greatly helped me (a noob :-) understand a great deal about timepieces. It's 30+ hours of video from KZitem channel: AWCI; Series of videos: Random Clock Talks. While it's subject is clocks, most everything discussed applies to watches. It's extraordinarily comprehensive, covering everything from untangling hairsprings to making gears on a lathe, and everything in between. The series was video taped by an old man in the mid 1980's, so the audio and video quality are a bit low, but the information put forth is just awesome.
@orvilleboutilier381
6 жыл бұрын
Another amazing video from this gifted artist. Sheesh. The music is perfect. I am trying to learn his technique which is perfect.
@szbalogh
6 жыл бұрын
Gifted haha,, lol. But thank You ;)
@orvilleboutilier381
6 жыл бұрын
Don't sell yourself short. Hairspring manipulation is very difficult. I have a mountain of micro mini scouring pads to prove it! I'm having great success with your method however.
@szbalogh
6 жыл бұрын
Thank You very much!
@castotoro5166
2 жыл бұрын
Muy bueno gracias...
@Patrick-pl8wv
6 жыл бұрын
I have only one word for you. WOW!
@szbalogh
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@TomTom-up1kz
6 жыл бұрын
very good work thanks for you
@sequen-cielscientific
6 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on this very small object!
@willf5768
5 жыл бұрын
Yep you need the patience of a saint for this operation.😁
@Vishalkumar-mu5hy
4 жыл бұрын
Bro use sewing machine needles.it will make easy with needles to go inside of the hairspring to bring extra small pushed because due to length and heavyness of tweezer you can't sense properly that how much pressure you're applying.I also do this work on daily basis and it give me more satisfaction than fking my girfriend.haha.
@szbalogh
4 жыл бұрын
Haha :) Thank You! Someone else already told me this trick .
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