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Ok guys in the period of time waiting for my stem extensions to arrive I managed to find a couple of hours last night to rebuild my 6105B, the tech manuals I've grabbed off this site are good but following the lines on the diagrams is a little difficult due to the clarity of the copying, is there a hi def version of them?
Anyway I have a slight problem, on reassembling I had to change the main spring so I grabbed a barrel and spring from a donor 6139 and fitted that, I then hit a snag trying to locate the escape wheel lower pivot in the jewel, had a closer look and the pivot had snapped off, so back to the donor 6139 I looked up the part numbers for the escape wheel and they are the same so I fitted that aswell, with all wheels fitted and bridges screwed in place, I left the auto wind mechanism off and wound the mainspring with a screw driver and nudged the balance which is free moving.
I got nothing, I looked and looked I removed the balance to check all wheels are in jewels just incase, i nudged the pallet fork and noticed that it didnt flick over so there was no power getting to the escapement.
At the moment I can't figure out why this might be, mainspring fully wound the whole train free moving but no power at the escapement.
I'm not after a miracle answer as I know it's impossible to give, but any suggestions would be appreciated, but I will do another strip etc and rebuild and see if I can get it all moving and will keep you all informed of my slow progress in getting this piece back up and running.
Anyway I have a slight problem, on reassembling I had to change the main spring so I grabbed a barrel and spring from a donor 6139 and fitted that, I then hit a snag trying to locate the escape wheel lower pivot in the jewel, had a closer look and the pivot had snapped off, so back to the donor 6139 I looked up the part numbers for the escape wheel and they are the same so I fitted that aswell, with all wheels fitted and bridges screwed in place, I left the auto wind mechanism off and wound the mainspring with a screw driver and nudged the balance which is free moving.
I got nothing, I looked and looked I removed the balance to check all wheels are in jewels just incase, i nudged the pallet fork and noticed that it didnt flick over so there was no power getting to the escapement.
At the moment I can't figure out why this might be, mainspring fully wound the whole train free moving but no power at the escapement.
I'm not after a miracle answer as I know it's impossible to give, but any suggestions would be appreciated, but I will do another strip etc and rebuild and see if I can get it all moving and will keep you all informed of my slow progress in getting this piece back up and running.