Try not to scrape the oil pot. Depending on the material of your oil cup, it could transfer small fragments of debris to your watch.

Plus, if the portion of Rodico used to clean these glass surfaces is never used to clean other objects (like gears/tools, which may have heavier dirt/debris), it can easily be re-used for potentially far longer than the time it would take for a microfiber cloth to get disgusting. This also eliminates the risk of accidentally “wiping” a small bit of abrasive material that will permanently scratch your glass surface. I use Horotec F Pattern tweezers for handling hands - these are stainless steel and have large flat highly polished tips.

I always wondered about this. Say you have the main plate all the train and bridges together and oiled to perfection on both sides save for one last cup. You dip your oiler into that cup , everything is looking good for the home stretch. But as you are lifting the oiler out of the cup your fingers have the tiniest spasm. Oh no. Under 20x magnification you can just about make out the tiniest smidge of oil on the rim of that cup. Can barely even see it honestly . Well? What do you do? Leave it as is? Rodico that sombich? Soak it up with pegwood? What would be the proper/non corner cutting approach? Dismantle the whole thing put it through the cycles and try again? Really? Hands should be handled by their edges, so do not grip them on the flat part of the hand. Yes, it's not always easy to handle hands only by their edges, but that is the way I do it - no one said this would be easy! Consistent renewal of small quantities of oil is ALWAYS better than inconsistent replenishment of a large amounts of oil. Don’t use Rodico on warm watches, warm parts, or warm tools, as it will turn to a slime consistency from the heat. This includes where you store it while not in use, avoid leaving it in warm areas like directly below a bench light or next to a heated cleaner. Rodico doesn't come close to any watch I'm about to assemble. It simply does not work unless making really cool oily stains is your thing.

Prolong the life of your Rodico by keeping it wrapped up when not in use to prevent from drying out and breaking easily. Rodico will age in time, discontinue the use of a bar once it starts leaving a residue behind. Some watchmakers swear that a well kept bar of Rodico can stay fresh and last for more than 10 years, while others who use it religiously can easily go through a single bar within a few months time. If you have lint or dust on the hands, do not use Rodico or other types of watchmaking "putty" to remove it. These all leave residue behind, so I would recommend the urethane cleaning swabs: Don't depend on Rodico too much. The use of Rodico should a last case scenario. Rodico is great! Except the fact that most watchmakers keep them for years on end and never change/throw them out. If you do use Rodico, make sure it's less than a week old since opening. A lot of people do not know that lubricants expire. I’m being dead serious. I’ve met several watchmakers who did not believe in replacing their oils until the bottles run out (their bottles could be older than you and me combined).It is indeed handy for getting stubborn cap jewels out of settings and many things, but should be kept off clean parts and dials, away from oil/jewels, and when used to "clean" already clean parts, use fresh stuff. If you need to handle it with your finger, do it with finger cots. Certain positions like in the timing machine results above for you had random dots sort of? One of things nice when you getting weird stuff from the timing machine is to listen to the sound of the watch. That's the downfall of the Chinese timing machines they don't have audio like when she typically does. When you listen to the audio and you're having rubbing bumping hitting issues a lot of times you can actually hear that. Hairspring bumping in the something can be quite musical the sound it makes for instance balance wheel a course bumping in the things you'll hear that a lot of the times the timing machine season shows you that but if you listen often times you could hear there's a problem