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In an act of great hubris, I decided I would buy and service an old Ladymatic to give to my wife. In cleaning the balance assembly, I completely demolished the hairspring. Turns out the parts being so small has consequences beyond just being hard to handle. In this case, I had dipped the balance assembly into a petri dish of hexane. I lifted it out with the balance wheel on bottom, and the surface tension of the hexane caught the wheel. I should have stopped and flipped it over under the…
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