ETA H3 cannon pinion pictorial

[Silverspeed 10]

This morning I finally replaced the standard rep-cannon pin on my PAM 183 with the ETA H3 cannon pin from Flavor Flav.

 

After reading a lot and getting some tools I went for it today......and took pics at every step....

 

First of all some coffee....quite important after spending probably too much time in the local pub Saturday night...

 

 

Here it is, I already took off the strap

 

To take the back case of I used a ball made of Duck-Tape works perfect...

 

Next I took out the crown and stem and placed all the tiny bits in small container

 

After this it is time to take out the movement

 

Here it is movement is out and now time to take the hand off the dial with a Presto hand remover

 

Before I removed the hands I placed a small piece off paper around the hand to protect the dial

 

With the Presto hand remover those hands came off very easy

 

Now it was time to remove the dial and by flipping over the movement the 'decorated plate' fell off.....a well shit happens and then you move on

 

There you go the dial separated from the movement and you can see the cannon pin which is way too small

 

Time to move on and take out the hour wheel and the Keyless-cover and finally the minute wheel before you can pull out the cannon pin

with the hand remover

 

Now with the standard cannon-pin taken out you can really see the difference between standard one the left and the ETA H3 on the right

 

With all the bits and pieces taken out this what you'll end up with.......

 

Since I never had taken out a movement before this scared the shit out of me so time for some coffee...

 

With a caffeine shot it was time to install the ETA cannon pin...I used my hand setter and pressed the cannon pin on with a click

 

Then you put back the minute wheel, keyless cover and slide on the hour wheel

 

Now lets move on and install the dial on to the movement

 

Then I followed the advice from Flavor Flav to sand down the inner-tube of the minute hand almost to the hand. I used sandpaper no.400 some patience and caffeine....worked like a charm...

 

With this done you place the hands back, I used the hand setter with came with the Presto hand remover, check and double check if the hands run freely and put the movement back in the case

 

All in all I'm quite satisfied with the end result.....it was fun doing

[greg_r 81]

Nice work, Silver!

[trailboss99 994]

Great post, thanks mate!

 

 

Col.

[sconehead 5]

Nice and clear tuto Silver...now you're on the trail of the part of this hobby I like the best, modding. Good feeling when you've finished, isn't it?

 

...well done mate...

[wombosi 0]

Nice tut silver! Hope to do this too one day!