Cow Rolex Restoration update 9 - The transformation

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@markgardiner5150 Ай бұрын

Having worked in a plating facility I fully appreciate showing the process to people who do not know. Continued great work team!

@QMac-i6h Ай бұрын

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👍🏻🇦🇺

@lasoph12prg Ай бұрын

So looking forward seeing it’s progress and end results

@mullrump2 Ай бұрын

Inspirational!!

@zipfizz9 Ай бұрын

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:)

@gioc4596 Ай бұрын

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.

@mototom9086 Ай бұрын

so nice !!!

@simonclegg5301 Ай бұрын

Fine work gentlemen. We’re looking forward to the finished job. Well done.🙂

@richardkent2200 Ай бұрын

Wow this is an encyclopaedic tour through the work of art you are engaged in. Thank you very much for sharing

@mercuriall2810 Ай бұрын

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!

@adfpv1153 Ай бұрын

Excellent work Kalle and the gang 😁👍👍

@davidhughes7368 Ай бұрын

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?

@ElderPinto254 Ай бұрын

mooi boek wauw!! prachtig dat electro plating !! Bedankt Kalle fijn weekend,

@vimx5 Ай бұрын

Wow, talk about a labour of love. The talent, tools and patience required to pull this off is commendable.

@manuelcorreia6448 Ай бұрын

Really great progress and transformation process! BTW: Hope to find a chapter on Electro-Plating in your book...

@marcelogrivotmorais Ай бұрын

I'm from Brazil. Wonderful job👏👏👏

@stevensondrake Ай бұрын

Really enjoying this series..can't wait to see the finished product😊

@StephanJPPL Ай бұрын

Great work !👏

@stanleyfriedlein Ай бұрын

Kalle, when are you planning your visit to the Science Museum ? At what time and where to meet? Thanks Stanley

@WhiteRabbit1980 Ай бұрын

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 😊

@vladnickul Ай бұрын

Using copper as the first layer of electroplating will provide a much better/atribger adhesion.

@tomlopez9385 Ай бұрын

Great project

@ReiMonCoH Ай бұрын

Add a little disk soap. It’ll produce less bubbles.. more even plate

@littleviking488 Ай бұрын

Looking good Kalle!

@WardiTime Ай бұрын

Amazing work Kalle 👏

@trevorjenkins3934 Ай бұрын

Kalle, Ref. the broken stem and Big Bertha. Have you considered getting a spark erosion machine?. Ooh, new machine alert. 😎

@wishbone2595 Ай бұрын

Fantastic. Do you press out all the jewels from the plates, before the plating process, then press new ones in afterwards?

@SarcastSempervirens Ай бұрын

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?

@watchwhisper Ай бұрын

Fantastic stuff

@sophiasocal68 Ай бұрын

Hello Kalle....from Wyoming USA

@bachgenb Ай бұрын

Fascinating, amazing! What about the jewels - I see some are preserved - can they be reused?

@Trevorpartington-yc6ri Ай бұрын

Great stuff yet again

@mohammednajibbenkacem5947 Ай бұрын

Nice 👍 job

@FrankCoghlan Ай бұрын

Hi Kalle. Just wondering why you didn’t remove the jewels before plating?

@ehun Ай бұрын

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.

@MichaelB-qx1eh Ай бұрын

Do you need to push out the jewels before nickel plating?

@ChronoglideWatchmaking Ай бұрын

No, they are non-conductive. No problem.

@keithwilliams9213 Ай бұрын

It's like you're restoring the Antithykera Mechanism!!🤣

@markgardiner5150 Ай бұрын

Another question, are you removing the ruby’s when you plate the pieces?

@erikwinkler Ай бұрын

Leuk deze chemie

@tickingrepairs5926 Ай бұрын

You should try Bergeon vissin to dissolve the steel stem parts ! Good luck and great work

@da___man Ай бұрын

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.

@richardkent2200 Ай бұрын

Fat Bertha will deal with the winding stem ok-money on it!

@ChrisCanuk Ай бұрын

Nice! Can you still adjust the jewels after nickleplatting?

@mikebruegger8654 Ай бұрын

Maybe desolve stem? I have had some luck with an ultrasonic bath in WD40. Godspeed...

@GaryBray Ай бұрын

Do you always plate / re-plate with the jewels in place?

@geirwickstrm9162 Ай бұрын

Have you replaced any jewels?

@rienstouten6739 Ай бұрын

Ik had hetzelfde probleem, een paar dagen in 15% zoutzuur loste het keurig op, zonder het messing aan te tasten.

@petercampbell3828 Ай бұрын

Conserved, rather than restored. Excellent! Would alum dissolve the old stem?

@dAzFivefoUr Ай бұрын

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.