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DIAL FEET LOCATION 3135/1570

1016 lover

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Hello,

Manage to find a thread with those information, but would like to do a little jig to clamp some 1570 feet and mill with the dial feet tool to he exact location for a 3135 caliber.

1570/75 dial feet positions are at 30 and 57 minutes

3075/85 and 3175/85 dial feet positions are at 13 and 37 minutes

My question is about the diameter ont those location will be applied?
 

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How are you going to attach the new feet to the dial? Asking because your tasks vary depending on whether or not your replacement feet will have round foot bases or not. There are several different ways to accomplish what you are attempting.

I've done this about every way you can except soldering on new feet. There is a thread on here showing how to do that but I decided it's not a skill I want to achieve.

Aside from that, the simplest and easiest way is to remove the feet from the 1570 dial, then sand/polish the back of the dial to rid it of all residue and irregularities. Next, apply four 2 - 3mm blobs of glue to the 3135 top movement plate away from any moving parts and set the dial into the glue. You can use GSHypo, I use BSI 30 min slow cure epoxy for nearly everything rep related. It gives you plenty of time to make corrections. It can be sliced through easily with a razor blade if needed and all surfaces will clean up (carefully) with alcohol.

If you are (understandably) intent on attaching new feet and the feet have bases, normally something needs to be done to reduce the base thickness. You can cut a round detent in the dial backside or into the movement top plate. The base can also be sanded much thinner. There is an affordable tool available on AliExpress that will make these cuts.

The reason this is usually necessary is because the extra foot base thickness pushes the dial above where it normally sits. This can impact stem height, available hands post vertical room, and date magnification if a cyclops is present. With a no date dial, it's possible you could get away without a detent but I would still thin the foot base to minimize the loss of available hands post room.
 
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1016 lover

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Thé deal IS to use thé 1570 feet to located thé 3135, my jig should have two hole for thé 1570 for using thé existing dial feets, and two drill bush AT the correct location to mill thé 0.1mm to glue some dial feets for 3135, Can t find this dimension, the diameter...


 
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Why not just measure a 1570 foot diameter and use it as a starting reference? You may need to lightly sand them to reshape them if they are gouged up from foot screws, etc.

Then add 0.1mm or so to the reference diameter and that's your starting jig hole diameter. Keep increasing the jig hole size until it just fits over the existing feet. Now you have an adjusted reference diameter to use for the 3135 feet holes. This ensures the 1570 feet will have space all the way around them in the new 3135 holes that can accept a glue bed.
 
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