Hope they help you succeed oddjobbob :) Just take it slow and careful. Cheers

Thanks :)

I agree, the only video's that are too long are the ones that constantly repeat themselves for no reason with horrible annoying background 'music' that's way too loud.

:) Watch my 'Makin' a Tool: Hairspring: Hairspring Curling Tweezers' and then Pt. 3 of the hairspring making to see some improvements. Also Repivot22 has a better method of doing the tight inner coils. Here's his video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8ibZLerrZzbhas.html Cheers

Gracias Ringo. Glad you liked it :) All the best with your project.

Thanks :) I'm constantly amazed at what skills people developed with minimal tooling; just time, patience, and aptitude. I don't want to see those skills lost. Part 3 is better, as I made some discoveries/improvements to the way I was doing things. Have a Good New Year.

Thank You :)

G'day Fergus! Makes sense :) I shall have to train myself to do likewise.

G'day Luis, It's just ordinary paper that we put in our desktop printer :) Cheers

Absolutely Nigel. In my books, from the first half of the 1900's, are instructions for making hairspring winders: Make a handle with a short axle at the top, and cut two slots in it. One slot going from 7 o'clock to 11 o'clock, the other from 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock. Make a shallow barrel with 4 slots in the rim, and make a lid for it that can be fixed in place. Thread two lengths of hairspring stock into the two slots in the axle and out the 4 slots in the barrel rim. Hold the barrel with one hand, and wind the handle with the other until the spring stock is used up. Tighten the lid and heat treat the barrel to set the springs to shape. This will give you 4 complete hairsprings with a 3 spring gap between each coil for clearance in use. I was having a go at using methods from the mid 1700's (less than a hundred years after the hairspring was invented), and seeing what the most basic tools (eg. no lathe required as for making the tool above), and time, could achieve. Otherwise known as Experimental Archaeology :) All the Best Cheers

@@theselectiveluddite Thank you for clearing that up for me. It's basically the method we used in School to make springs for clockwork toys, just on a much larger scale.

@@nigelnightmare4160 No worries :) Making clockwork toy springs sounds interesting.

@@theselectiveluddite Aye Metalwork in school was fun for a 12yr old, that was 46 yrs ago.

@@nigelnightmare4160 :) Well, I'm getting into watchmaking, and I'm 54 :) Good magnification....

Hola Casto, prueba la traducción automática, español, en la configuración en la parte inferior de la pantalla. Mis mejores deseos.

G'day Ronnie, I'm afraid that I'm not skilled enough for that job. Look on line for watchmakers in your area, or nearby cities. All the best.

G'day Styx, Yes, go to archive.org and use the search bar in the middle of the page.Their search engine is a bit clunky, but persist. Try capitals at the start of major words. I've downloaded about 30 books from the late 1800's to the late 1600's as PDF's. All free. If there are several different institutions that have scanned a particular title, and one of them is the Getty Research Institute, grab theirs as they tend to take care with their scans.Also, if there's a book with a few large, detailed, engravings, I've found it best to zoom in on them with Archive's viewer and save the images individually. Here are some examples: archive.org/details/cu31924031263134 archive.org/details/prizeessayoncon00grosgoog/page/n45/mode/2up archive.org/details/watchclockmaking00glas Google search for lists of 1700's and 1800's watchmaking author's names, and try typing them into Archive and see what turns up. The advantage of going back in time is that the authors won't be assuming you have CNC, and milling machine capabilities, but rather fairly simple hand tools :) All the best.

@@theselectiveluddite thank you so much for that. I do appreciate it.

@@styx4947 No problems :) It's worth getting some of the French books from the 1700's, even if, like me, you can't really read French, for the fantastic engravings, which do tell you quite a lot. Ferdinand Berthoud being one, Diderot & d' Alembert being another. They put out a huge encyclopaedia on all the trades of France, with break down illustrations of tools Cheers.

@@styx4947 And here's another that looks interesting (having read the Preface and looked at the contents page); from 1873. archive.org/details/atreatiseonwatc00neltgoog/page/n4/mode/2up

@@theselectiveluddite thanks again. I'll will certainly keep you up dated as my journey goes forth.