One pot wonder

[peteremc]

Thank you Barry and Tony. Off come the covers today to reveal the whole truth.

This is one of those quirks I have now discovered for myself which is part of the learning curve.

Tony, you mention using some stud lock. I assume Loctite is the same thing or at least does the same job?

Thanks

[peteremc]

Happy to say all is good. Firstly (and should've had a good look in the first place) I now understand where the stud goes and why you could easily run without it.

Pulled the covers to find one side fine. I suspect the stud was loose and seated itself as I tightened up the cap nut.

The other side had some dodgey thread at the end of the stud which wasn't quite long enough for the nut to get any proper purchase. Found a nice clean bolt and nut the same size. Ran the cap nut onto the bolt a couple of times and nice new nut up the stud a few times and cleaned the thread and then backed another nut up to the first one and pulled the stud, cleaned it up, applied some Loctite and put it back in a couple of turns shorter than previously and from there everything went beautifully.

Thanks again to the forum.

P.S. Tony, I think you're more than justified in taking the piss.

[Tony Smith]

Tony, you mention using some stud lock. I assume Loctite is the same thing or at least does the same job?

Thanks

Locktite comes in various "grades", for dumb folk like me they are colour coded - Blue for stuff you want to undo again without heat and incantation, Red for stuff you might want to undo one day and are prepared to have a heat gun at to help it along and Green for stuff you do not ever plan of moving again - I've forgotten the number designation for Green (blue is 242) but at one time it was marketed as "super stud lock".

It works. At home I have a very valuable, hand made wind-up watch I inherited form a great grandfather, it has its "chronometer" certificate engraved on the back. One day when winding it the bezel came loose.

Quick as a flash I knew what to do - a drop of "super stud lock" would fix it. Pity about the 'wick-in" properties of the dammable stuff.

Some years back the manufacturer gave an indicative quote of EUR1,000 carefully take it apart, clean it up and get it working again, they kindly included fixing the loose bezel in that. I really must get it fixed whilst there are still watchmakers alive to do the job.

[peteremc]

Great. I used some of the Blue Loctite so should be OK.

Shame about that watch and you're dead right about the skills to fix things dying out.