Use of Watch Repair Tools
>> Thursday, December 24, 2009
Designer watches have become an important part of fashion accessories for both men and women. These watch parts are quite complicated and thus require proper maintenance and servicing by professionals. Different watch repair tools are available for watch parts repairing.
Among the many watch parts repairing tools the basic ones are screwdrivers and tweezers. The other essential things that are required in watch repairing are a knife, measuring tools, cleaning solvents, oil, a bright lamp, adhesive, emery cloth and last but not the least a proper working table. A demagnetizer, hand pullers, pliers, punches, nippers, a watch case opener and closer are to be also kept in your watch repair kit box.
Among the many watch parts repairing tools the basic ones are screwdrivers and tweezers. The other essential things that are required in watch repairing are a knife, measuring tools, cleaning solvents, oil, a bright lamp, adhesive, emery cloth and last but not the least a proper working table. A demagnetizer, hand pullers, pliers, punches, nippers, a watch case opener and closer are to be also kept in your watch repair kit box.
Some of the essential tools required for watch parts repair are discussed here:
- Screwdrivers: One of the important tools required for watch repairing. Screwdrivers are required for fixing and dismantling the small and delicate watch parts. Those screwdrivers that have revolving tops are both safe and easy to use.
- Tweezers: It is also a must have watch repair tool in any watch repairer’s kit box. In the initial stage of watch repairing it is best to start with those tweezers that are easy to handle. Style 2 or 3 tweezers are good for handling the delicate watch parts. While buying the tweezers make sure to check whether it has parallel and sharp ends. If you want to prevent your watch repair tweezers from rust then you can buy the nonmagnetic ones. Incase you need to sharpen your tweezers you can use a fine stone to do that.
- Oil: It is an essential thing that you will require for watch repair. Oil is used as an important component of the cleaning process. For cleaning the watch parts both natural and synthetic watch oil are used by professionals.
- Cleaning Solutions: For watch parts cleaning the professionals use cleaning solutions and they prefer to use waterless solutions. Some of the cleaning solvents have carcinogenic elements that should be avoided. Sometimes peg wood sticks are used to clean the intricate designs or jewel holes of watches. Some professionals also use ultrasonic machines to clean the watch parts.
