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·I was working last night on the rat watch https://omegaforums.net/threads/my-lastest-rat-watch.184975/
This has been sitting on my bench for months. I had soaked some parts in sili-Kroil. Since I wanted to clean the bench off I dumped the parts into some evap-O-rust. Which I have been wanting to do for months.
Not sure when I last changed the cleaning solutoin. Perhaps a year and a half or even two years as I did not do much while my dad was convolesing.
Left it in the jar while I did something else. Felt like I was smelling cleaner, when I checked it this had happened.
I use a homemade cleaner of oil soap (oxolic acid.) acetone and ammonia thinned with distilled water. Sometimes I mix in denatured alcohol. Since the volume was low I topped it off with some old denatured alcohol from when HW stores sold it a fuel. As I could not quicky get to the distilled water.
Was weird how it all foamed up, like beer suds. Everything reeked of the acetone/ammonia smell all these cleaners give off.
Anyone else ever see an effect like this?
As for the watch parts, the grime is still caked on in places. More like clay mud.
There is no point in restoring this movement other than, I recently got some job lots what had extra needed parts for the setting. And I like working with such basket cases.
This has been sitting on my bench for months. I had soaked some parts in sili-Kroil. Since I wanted to clean the bench off I dumped the parts into some evap-O-rust. Which I have been wanting to do for months.
Not sure when I last changed the cleaning solutoin. Perhaps a year and a half or even two years as I did not do much while my dad was convolesing.
Left it in the jar while I did something else. Felt like I was smelling cleaner, when I checked it this had happened.
I use a homemade cleaner of oil soap (oxolic acid.) acetone and ammonia thinned with distilled water. Sometimes I mix in denatured alcohol. Since the volume was low I topped it off with some old denatured alcohol from when HW stores sold it a fuel. As I could not quicky get to the distilled water.
Was weird how it all foamed up, like beer suds. Everything reeked of the acetone/ammonia smell all these cleaners give off.
Anyone else ever see an effect like this?
As for the watch parts, the grime is still caked on in places. More like clay mud.
There is no point in restoring this movement other than, I recently got some job lots what had extra needed parts for the setting. And I like working with such basket cases.
