The Sportsmatic service thread.

[donciccio]

Ladies and Gents ... Its been a while since I've posted. Not due to lack love for our dear forum , but due to the fact that I've been slammed at work and I am now entering our season.

So I'll post the first stages of a couple of restorations/servicing that I have on the "to do list".

I recently acquired a couple Sportsmatics that are not running even a little bit. One is from 66' the other from 67'.



















Luckily the dials on both are in very pristine condition.

The first thing I did was break them down and separate the cases and put all the parts into a heated ultrasonic bath...

















...next step movement break down and overhaul/cleaning.

Stay tuned. a115

[Deleted]

Beautiful dials and hands! Hope the cases clean up to match.

The movement in the third shot appears to be trying to run so it should respond well to the cleaning and service chinathumbsup.gif

[Groundhog66]

Looking forward to seeing the progress, I have no doubt they will be beauties. 


One is a '66 you say?    popcorn

[donciccio]

Nov 4, 2013 17:20:43 GMT -8 @penguinbce said:

Beautiful dials and hands! Hope the cases clean up to match.

The movement in the third shot appears to be trying to run so it should respond well to the cleaning and service chinathumbsup.gif

She runs for about 45 seconds then stops, but I have high hopes for it. thunbsup.gif

[donciccio]

Nov 4, 2013 17:24:57 GMT -8 Groundhog66 said:

Looking forward to seeing the progress, I have no doubt they will be beauties. 


One is a '66 you say?    popcorn

You have dibs if I sell it. laugh1.gif

[sdoocms]

The dials are flat out gorgeous!

[cd_god]

I always wanted one of those early Sportsmatics with the Gyro symbol and the Yamaha symbols dials especially in a SS case.

[Rod]

This is awesome i just live seeing a movement serviced, tuned in and  popcorn

Rod