Hi guys,
A week or so ago I posted a topic about an Illinois with a bad mainspring. Today a customer brought in an Elgin and he said he didn't know what happened but it just quit working. When I opened the back I said well right here is at least part of the problem. The hairspring had several bends in it right at the pins on the regulator arm. Like someone had tried to speed watch up but the regulator pins grabbed the hairspring and bent it about double. In the first picture you will see what it looked like after I got it out of the watch. I told the customer I would give it a go at fixing it back but made no promises. Told him I would relax a bit and get my mind right and see what I could do. In the other picture you can see how it worked out. Put the watch on my timeograph and it is a bit out of beat but it is running only about 6 seconds a day fast. Anyway I just wanted to share this one.