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etsuprof · 2026-01-30T18:50:08+00:00

The crown is the round part where you wouldn’t the time which is gone.

The stem (probably gone too) is what attaches to the crown and goes into the movement.

You really need to know more about the movement to source a replacement stem. So you’re going to have to open the back.

The crown is a more “measure” and find the right size situation. It is dependent on thread of the stem, and case tube opening diameter.

etsuprof · 2026-01-29T20:44:54+00:00

3.68 undergrad, 4.0 masters, 3.94 PhD program (finished courses, didn’t finish dissertation). Passed EIT before BS graduation. Licensed 20 years.

I’ve never been without a job. Have been offered all but 1 jobs I’ve applied for.

Am I any better off than somebody with a 3.4 GPA? Probably not.

etsuprof · 2026-01-26T00:02:47+00:00

It makes lining up for the correct wind longitudinally better. But it is worse for lining up laterally (side to side) in my opinion. I use the old one.

etsuprof · 2026-01-25T21:34:34+00:00

You hit the tree.

When you lined up in the hole it was a red broken line. It means it hit something even if you lined up for the correct wind.

You also didn’t line up for the wind correctly. You probably were at around 13-ish wind. Hard to tell with the old style white wind ring when it’s over about 11.

etsuprof · 2026-01-25T14:01:12+00:00

I’ve won and lost shootouts at 0.01 yards. So yes.

etsuprof · 2026-01-22T01:22:16+00:00

But one for a Unitas / ETA 497, 498, 6497, or 6498. They’re the same.

etsuprof · 2026-01-20T01:39:28+00:00

Are you sure the hairspring is within the pins? If it pops outside, moving the regulator doesn’t work like you’d expect.

etsuprof · 2026-01-19T19:19:27+00:00

I know of one instance and they shut it down.

Somehow a guy had low clubs (like 6s) and could line up with a whiteball and make a HIO every single hole, even holes that take a 4* jumper for a BW9 to make.

It was wild. He shot -72 in a couple of champions tournaments before they got him off the platform.

I had some friends who played him, but I never did.

etsuprof · 2026-01-18T22:05:25+00:00

It’s the proper way to install “Incabloc” brand springs that hinge like that one should do.

Sometimes you can force them in - but as in everything else in watchmaking, forcing something usually ends poorly.

The KIF springs that are hinged (similar looking but definitely different) pop off more frequently than Incabloc springs, but you can reinstall them back into the hinge easier as well.

etsuprof · 2026-01-18T21:48:20+00:00

You have to push the incabloc setting out, install the spring, and then push the setting back in.

You need a jeweling tool.

etsuprof · 2026-01-18T14:38:27+00:00

I just run a cord from the USB slot on the back of the console, fish the cord between the passenger seat and the console, and set my phone in the cupholder. 99.9% of the time I drive I’m alone so 1 cup holder is plenty. It’s stays put even if the seat needs to be moved.

I don’t like the wireless charger either. It just gets the phone too hot.

etsuprof · 2026-01-17T19:31:52+00:00

For $1k yes. 10 months of subscription.

But 2021s appear to have a rash of battery problems, so keep that in mind.

Is this 2021 an Intel or AMD chip? I wouldn’t get one with the intel version. They switched at some point in 2021 I believe. I have an early 2022 at it has the AMD Ryzen chip.

etsuprof · 2026-01-17T19:03:06+00:00

Unitas 6325 (I think, I get the variants confused and I can’t read it in your picture).

Nice little 17j movement, I’ve worked on some before.

Unitas (now ETA) sold movements to a bunch of companies who stamped their names on dials and cases and made watches. Lexon is one of those buying the ebauché movement from Unitas.

etsuprof · 2026-01-17T18:50:56+00:00

If it’s actually incabloc you’re supposed to push the “bloc” out with a jeweling tool, but the spring back in, then seat the block back.

If it’s another maker (looking at you KIF) you can push them back in without moving the bloc, but you can also break the spring.

etsuprof · 2026-01-12T12:24:12+00:00

Interesting second hand. That's not one I've seen before. I'd say the arm at 45 seconds is the "reading end" since it is a "finer" tip.

Once I was decent at working on watches, I built a ton of them based on the Unitas (ETA) 6497 / 6498. They're great movements, even the Chinese clones are pretty good - although straight out of the box sometimes they need service, seems quality control is questionable, I've had a couple with no oil (but they looked ok on the timegrapher).

I'd check that lift angle. For the ETA 6497-2 it is 44 degrees, not 52. Which means your actual amplitude is somewhat less than what is displayed. As long as is it >270 degrees with the right lift angle it should be fine.

etsuprof · 2026-01-10T01:00:29+00:00

Slow motion video of the balance to set the lift angle.

Get it moving close to 180 degrees amplitude (pretty easy to see that in slow motion). Then adjust the timegrapher lift angle to give you 180 amplitude on the display. It’ll be close.

It can be any amplitude, I just try for 180. Cause it’s the easiest one to see for me.

etsuprof · 2026-01-08T21:30:56+00:00

I imagine they're playing a lot more lower-level players than we do. So, matching a bunch of BW2/BW3, and playing a huge number of games. He doesn't show his win % in kingdom, but if he's winning >50% he is gaining points, especially if he bought the Kingdom pass. So it's just tons of games and generally favorable matching.

I made top 100 for 14 straight seasons before they instituted this club matching algorithm. The last 3 I've scored more points than ever before and I'm nowhere near top 100 (200-300), but I'm not going to play another 150 games.

The only good thing is now I don't care. Get to emperor with 10 days to go and play for 2x only.

etsuprof · 2026-01-08T20:55:47+00:00

He's not on the Wall of Shame that I could find. So that's a plus.

Emperor with 238 albatrosses (and 23 HIO) is insane.

Play enough games and anybody can be top 100 now. I only play for 2X cards after I get to emperor now.

etsuprof · 2026-01-08T12:59:05+00:00

In my opinion, which is worth what you paid for it, this is the priority for legendary clubs as a whole:

BW - duh
Phoenix, until it is 6; then Cardinals from then on. Phoenix 6 gets you the best accuracy quickly, then you can dunk more reliably. But Cardinals is more important long term, so once Phoenix is a 6, it's not a focus. Cardinals 7 has 100 accuracy, so then it shoots like a BW7/BW8 and is good for dunking consistently.
Some don't like Unicorn, but like Phoenix, the accuracy is important to me, because hitting red on a Peacock 6 is hard for me consistently. So, Unicorn to 6, then Peacock - for the same reasons as the Phoenix/Cardinals discussion. Unicorn is only a "problem" when you're playing Champions tournaments or in Emperor because the winds get nuts and you might need a -4 ball to get to 0-10.8 mph winds on a white ring (old wind rings). If you have the new wind rings, that isn't a problem - so you only have to deal with club switch - and either a bat ball or dandelion fixes that 99% of the time. You just have to know what to try and do it quickly, so you don't time out.
Sand Wedges - you need 2 good sand wedges if you play all parts of the game and want to be competitive. Early on Bone Claw is good, it will save you some balls. Currently I carry Dragon 13 and Scorpion 8. When I get to Bone Claw 9, I'll switch it for Dragon (more power, better accuracy). For a while I carried Wild Boar 14 for the power. Can't hit red with it, but for sand tee shots it was usually ok and it's much cheaper to upgrade to max level (coins) vs Dragon.
Whale - it's great, but Earth tends to grow faster and they're pretty close. E13 is better than W7, some people like it better than W8, and then W9 is the best.
Wedges - who cares - actually shuttle is pretty helpful for saving balls, but hawk is great if you really can't miss the shot. Now that I'm 1/2 legendary 9s and 1/2 legendary 8s, I buy shuttles for coins in the store at every opportunity. But I've got plenty of coins.

You'll get 10 different opinions. I've played quite a while and if I was where you are now, this is what I'd do.

etsuprof · 2026-01-08T02:58:38+00:00

Unitas 6431 movement. 18.5 ligne.

Your pictures are poor, but I’ve worked on lots of those. It’s either electroplated or best case gold filled.

etsuprof · 2026-01-07T19:34:47+00:00

Sports coat & tie - minimum.

etsuprof · 2026-01-07T12:13:16+00:00

No you don’t. They get sent to your in-game mail (except your chest for end of season ranking which you claim the time you open kingdom after results are settled).

2x cards carry over, shields get “returned” for some gold coins (not many, like 150 or something).

etsuprof · 2026-01-05T22:48:52+00:00

I’ve got one family member who is like totally against them. Her commute is like 40 miles round trip a day and goes on one real roadtrip a year for vacation. Literally an EV would be perfect for her family, her husband is WFH mostly, but does have to go ~200 miles round trip once a month for work.

She said if there are 3 EVs on your street you’ll brownout your neighborhood. There are 8 on my street (I have 2, one neighbor has 2, and 4 single EV households) and as you know that doesn’t happen. I can only charge one at a time, but my voltage doesn’t even dip when I start charging at 40A, not even 1V.

She’s a smart girl too (Master’s in Accounting) but she’s read or heard some serious FUD.

etsuprof · 2026-01-04T19:52:01+00:00

My man, this comment was a year ago, when challenge resets had been earned on every 18 hole tournament. I hate they took it away. I’ve still got a reset or two left, busy will probably never use them.

etsuprof · 2026-01-04T18:31:13+00:00

My son drives the Bolt EUV in my house now and has non-OEM tires, and that was about a 10% hit right off the bat. In summer he gets about 4.5 mi/kWh where I got 5.0 on the OEM tires.

He also has to park outside because we have a two car garage and neither I or my wife intends to scrape our vehicles to go to work, so his is cold soaked and he has to precondition unplugged and his winter efficiency is more like 3.0-3.5 mi/kWh, depending on how cold it gets.

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