What are you working on now?

[Yoda]

Practice my friends, practice....

Pick up your favourite set of tweezers and lift a cap jewel by the edges and turn the tweezers so the cap jewel is upside down and then back. When you can do this, you can do anything without launching the parts.

Also, most tweezers will need some dressing, they should not be parallel, but kind of opening up from the tip and back.

[Phaedros]

Practice my friends, practice....

Pick up your favourite set of tweezers and lift a cap jewel by the edges and turn the tweezers so the cap jewel is upside down and then back. When you can do this, you can do anything without launching the parts.

Also, most tweezers will need some dressing, they should not be parallel, but kind of opening up from the tip and back.

A tweezer drill... fantastic! I still have some broken mollies to play with. I shall start launching cap jewels soon

[Yoda]

Something like this in the picture. You could spare yourself a lot of trouble and start with an unboiled rice corn, then move on to something like a screw or a piece of wire and work your way down. Keep the object close to the table and my own experience is that it is better to drop it because you are holding it too gently, than to see it take off and disappear into a black hole.
Fortunately I can still hear a part land and also hear where it landed. Hardwood floor or similar, no carpets!

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[djolemag]

Also be sure tweezers are properly sharpened and polished...
Generally, larger and heavier object needs larger tweezers ...
As Yoda said, try to practice with rice or some spare parts.
Good tip for click and similar springs: use tweezers and pwgwood stick or toothpick when releasing them or fitting back.
Usually, when you put it in place, hold it pressed with wood stick and then complete fitting with tweezers, like when you need to compress one end to fit into slot or similar... Much better than using two pairs of tweezers. If spring slips, it will still be held by wood...


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[mountaineer]

Just looking at that jewel in the tweezer makes me nervous.

I like your thought about holding it loose and it will just drop. I squeeze with a death grip. The parts launch like rockets.

[djolemag]

Yes, do nit squeeze it hard... Better to drop, easier to find...

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[tafari]

Cutting, filing and polishing off the rough edges from a brass strip to make a 'movement holder' for my 4992b Athaya pilots....

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looking perfect, I did them too for my pilots

[calvinktlim]

Cutting, filing and polishing off the rough edges from a brass strip to make a 'movement holder' for my 4992b Athaya pilots....

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looking perfect, I did them too for my pilots

I learnt it from you but it took me a long time to figure out....

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[tatham]

construction 618:

[bmsm]

construction 618:

Nice job