Cow Rolex Restoration update 9 - The transformation
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Nickel plating the original parts!
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Thanx Kalle for update 👍🏻Just watched the movie Longitude, from many moons ago, thank you for that one, I’m from Australia! Captain Cook made it possible for me to live here. Thank you John Harrison👍🏻🇦🇺
Kalle, you and your team are doing an incredible job on this watch. Possibly this is the first time ever that a very damaged wrist watch is being given this level of restoration and repair. I live close to where this watch was lost- near the Shropshire/Welsh border:)
Having worked in a plating facility I fully appreciate showing the process to people who do not know. Continued great work team!
Wow this is an encyclopaedic tour through the work of art you are engaged in.
Thank you very much for sharing
Kalle, Ref. the broken stem and Big Bertha. Have you considered getting a spark erosion machine?.
Ooh, new machine alert. 😎
So looking forward seeing it’s progress and end results
Kalle, you should put together a plating video on how you do old watch cases that the nickel is flaking off. It would be a great learning opportunity for us. What do you think?
Wow, it is amazing to see the progress and process to restore the watch. Amazing work Kalle. Thanks for taking us in this journey. Can’t wait to see the finished product.
Fantastic progress, thank you for sharing this journey with us, Kalle!
Given there is no steelwork you wish to save, you can save a lot of work with Fat Bertha removing the remnants of the stem and any other steel by simply soaking the whole plate in a concentrated solution of ‘potash alum’ (proper chemical name is potassium aluminium sulfate).
Simply dissolve as much alum as possible into some warm (60C) water, and leave the whole plate in the solution overnight.
The remaining part of the stem and any other steel parts will be gone.
This is a very safe and effective technique when there’s no steel present that you must preserve.
The potash alum is very cheaply and easily available online and from pharmacies.
Try it on a scrap movement and I think you’ll see for yourself how well it works!
I'm from Brazil. Wonderful job👏👏👏
Using copper as the first layer of electroplating will provide a much better/atribger adhesion.
Nice 👍 job
so nice !!!
Fine work gentlemen. We’re looking forward to the finished job. Well done.🙂
If you over you could pop into the science museum level 2 in London and do a video on the fantastic watch museum they have there 😊
Add a little disk soap. It’ll produce less bubbles.. more even plate
Just incredible work! When I see that lump of rust I wish I could work on a project like that! One question - there's a wire holding a part in the solution during nickelplating. The wire touches a small piece of the part, how do you nickelplate that tiny part? Do you later hang it by a different hole?
Kalle, when are you planning your visit to the Science Museum ? At what time and where to meet? Thanks Stanley
Wow, talk about a labour of love. The talent, tools and patience required to pull this off is commendable.
Hi Kalle. Just wondering why you didn’t remove the jewels before plating?
Fascinating, amazing! What about the jewels - I see some are preserved - can they be reused?
Hello Kalle....from Wyoming USA
Excellent work Kalle and the gang 😁👍👍
Really great progress and transformation process! BTW: Hope to find a chapter on Electro-Plating in your book...
Ik had hetzelfde probleem, een paar dagen in 15% zoutzuur loste het keurig op, zonder het messing aan te tasten.
I have not seen any mention of chemical cleaning for rust removal? Was there a reason it was not used? I also see some minor corrosion in the pitting on the main plate. A good plating job requires removal of ALL corrosion or it will eventually blister the nickle plate.
Maybe desolve stem? I have had some luck with an ultrasonic bath in WD40. Godspeed...
Leuk deze chemie
mooi boek wauw!! prachtig dat electro plating !! Bedankt Kalle fijn weekend,
Great work !👏
Really enjoying this series..can't wait to see the finished product😊
Amazing work Kalle 👏
Another question, are you removing the ruby’s when you plate the pieces?
Looking good Kalle!
Fantastic. Do you press out all the jewels from the plates, before the plating process, then press new ones in afterwards?
Fat Bertha will deal with the winding stem ok-money on it!
Great stuff yet again
You should try Bergeon vissin to dissolve the steel stem parts ! Good luck and great work
It's like you're restoring the Antithykera Mechanism!!🤣
I'm wondering if you are going to try to polish the electroplated parts in the tumbler with the walnut shells. I think if you give the parts a heavy plating with the nickel they may polish up nicely.
Do you need to push out the jewels before nickel plating?
No, they are non-conductive. No problem.
It would be better to leave the war wounds and honest
Fantastic stuff
Great project
Are all the jewels intact?
New pallet fork?
Do you always plate / re-plate with the jewels in place?
Do you have to remove the "jewels" before nickel plating....then re-instal them once plated?
No, they are non-conductive. No problem.
Have you replaced any jewels?
Nice! Can you still adjust the jewels after nickleplatting?
I have an Omega 601 with exactly the same rusted in stem if you want something for Fat Bertha to practice on?🤣
Conserved, rather than restored. Excellent!
Would alum dissolve the old stem?
Yes, I serviced an Omega with the same problem, the stem goes a long way into the plate on this calibre, also the long dial screws were also rusted in, a very strong solution of alum simmering in a beaker took a few hours keeping an eye to the water level and topping up when needed, the stem and dial screws dissolved away, didn't even affect the copper/rose gold plating.
Will you nickel plate it with the rubies staying in place?
Yes, no problem with that.
Almost 1st.