Fixing the Graham Lever

[Peter52]

Hey guys,

since yesterday i'm the proud owner of a Graham chronofighter oversice scarab. Nice watch, the only thing that bothers me is that the chrono lever is a little bit wobbly

i read in the forum that there is an easy fix for this by adding a washer to the lever or so. But i can't find a tutorial on this.

Help is much appreciated, thanks

[unkul]

My advice would be to

1. get some dental floss or ribbon as you would use when wrapping a gift.

2. Slice the ribbon really thin so its the thickness of fuse wire

3. Work this upto the pivot hinge of the lever (its tricky but pliers and patience and a fair length of ribbin will work)

4. Once in position twist as you would when sealing a sandwich bag so the ribbon gets really tight under the lever (lever should not be wobbly now)

5. Trim away excess using a craft knife (carefully)

7. Roberts your mothers brother

Worked for me like a charm.

[Bike Mike]

For my Grahams, I did a little more robust fix then using dental floss. I removed the lever and put 3 small dabs of JB Weld on the inside of the lower portion of the lever and let dry. Once dried I filled the JB weld down to the proper thickness to get a perfect fit! Reinstalled the lever and never looked back. Did this on a couple of my Pams that had the dental floss treatment.

Little time consuming but I feel it works much better!

Please post pics of your Scarab as I am about to order one I think!

[unkul]

Hey mike how did you remove the lever. \i couldnt find a key to fit it?

[Bike Mike]

One of my allen keys. Don't recall if it was english or metric...was over a year ago. Some of my keys are also filled down for those "special" applications.

[ft0472]

its 1.0 or 1.5 on the metric key

[unkul]

nice one. cheers