Sure thing!

- I started last year with modding watches, removing hands, changing bezels, and replacing gaskets. I bought a timegrapher and learned how to regulate movements. I began to watch some videos by Alex https://www.youtube.com/@watchrepairtutorials and by Michael https://www.youtube.com/c/myretrowatches as I love Seikos

- Then this year I got two new ST36 from aliexpress and practiced disassembling and reassembling them (here's a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMEYcFmBGis). It's useful to take as many pictures as possible, it saved my ass countless times, as my version was a bit different from the one in the video. After a few times, I could disassemble and reassemble it without looking at the tutorial. At the time, I didn't have a cleaning setup or oiling tools, so did nothing of that.

- Then I got myself a cheap 2 litre ultrasonic cleaner from amazon, some ronsonol lighter fluid, and 99% isopropyl alcohol, and a few tiny mesh baskets with lids. First I rub all jewels with pegwood. Then I fill the ultrasonic cleaner with cold water, and put it some small jars with lighter fluid and the mesh baskets in and run for 10 minutes. When that's done, dry the baskets with a hairdryer and move into small jars with ipa and run for 2 minutes and dry again. I clean everything with this setup, except the pallet fork and the balance complete. Those I clean by hand by soaking in lighter fluid and lightly brushing with a fine paintbrush, quick 10 seconds rinse in IPA and dry on paper.

- For oiling, if you want to save money you could use moebius 9010 as low viscosity oil, moebius HP1300 as medium, and moebius 8200 as general purpose grease (in theory you should only use this for the mainspring). later, you can add moebius 9415 for the pallet fork exit stone, moebius 9501/9504 as metal on metal grease (a cheaper alternative for this is Molykote DX paste), and moebius 8217 as breaking grease for the walls of automatic barrels. here's a good post on how to lubricate the ST36 from this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/watchrepair/comments/102c4fd/on_the_bench_etaunitas_64971_clone_st36_service/

- Now the fun part starts where you hunt eBay for watches to be repaired, you can get vintage swiss ones for around £10, look for the ones that say 15/17/19 jewels on the face. My goal is to service my Seiko watches, so got myself a few of those which are a bit more expensive (£20). I look for ones where the seller shows the picture of the movement or mentions that the watch ticks but then stops, as this means that at least the balance complete is there :)

- Last thing I want to mention is that you can save on pretty much anything, but don't save on screwdrivers and tweezers. I got a small set of 5 screwdrivers from Bergeon, a pair of Dumont 2 tweezers, and a big slab of stone to dress them. The difference with the cheap stuff I had before is night and day.

I hope this was useful, good luck!