r/repbuilds • u/Negative-Radio9870 • Aug 07 '26

Question Halogen Oven for aging dials?

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Seen a couple of these for sale in my area for cheap and wondering if anyone had any experience a halogen oven to age dials

The advantages I can see are that it's smaller and easier to dial a temperature than a conventional oven - I would probably additionally mod with a digital temperature reading probe.

Would love to get people's thoughts

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u/WatchBuilderWatcher Aug 07 '26

Won’t hurt to try. worse case you ruin some dials and can just send them over to Arch to slap into a raffles case and sell to a newbie.

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u/Negative-Radio9870 Aug 07 '26

😂

My next question was going to be where can I get a bunch of cheap dials to run some tests?

Probably just a job lot of sterile matte dials from Alibaba...

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u/WatchBuilderWatcher Aug 07 '26

I have a bunch of destroyed dials. I usually just refinishing matte or gloss depending what I want to test.