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 Posted: Tue Dec 30th, 2008 09:59 pm
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e.avery



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 We and most watch movement designers refer to the phenomenon as pooling or capillary action.  I wish I could tell you I read the posts, but I blanked out after the first couple.

The study of such things is refereed to as tribology, and people spend a lot of money and time to understand it.  Trust me I have gone to sleep in lots of conferences that dealt with such issues.  Tribology and polymer chemistry and there application in horology make me take a quick and deep nap.  The best sleep I got all year was in the end of November at an SSC breakfast, which to anyone that knows me is a late dinner, but it was very informative.

Sorry, I get kind of talkative when I drink to much, or is that typeative.