tall tube heat blue hands for 3646

[thelonedoc]

An H3 plus tall tubes should be enough for a thicker sandwich dial.

[NortON]

An H3 plus tall tubes should be enough for a thicker sandwich dial.

That is, so as not to soldered the hands and use regular hands

[NortON]

If you solder the tubes on, how do you blue the hands? Blue the hands first , then solder?

Yes. Blue color will be affected at 290-300°. Soldering with soft solder can be done at 180-190°. It's not so scaring experience if you use a soldering-iron with temp adjusting.

Great work!

[bmsm]

If you solder the tubes on, how do you blue the hands? Blue the hands first , then solder?

Yes. Blue color will be affected at 290-300°. Soldering with soft solder can be done at 180-190°. It's not so scaring experience if you use a soldering-iron with temp adjusting.

Great job!!


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[Sevanata]

That is crazy long. That is measured from the bottom of the hand?

I think if the hands were made from the proper material that will blue, you will run into other problems.

The hand holes will need to be (re-) broached after heat bluing due to the most likely distortion of the tubes.

Wouldn't it be easier to modify the CP and HW?

I think not only appropriate but look much better to extend the cp/hw for few more $ more.

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[thelonedoc]

If you use tall tubes from the nightwatch hands that have faux cannon pinion it will look great. Also a lot cheaper than a custom set of hw and cp.