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Hi Bear, hope your feeling better today
The test is performed with the lever/ pallets out of the movement, this test is to see if you have power going thru the gear train all the way to the escape wheel. By doing this you can isolate some of your issues. First let down the mainspring, second = take out the pallets, third = a couple of twists on the crown, 
doesnt take much, the escape wheel should then turn in the proper direction and as it losses power it will stop and go the other direction a little bit, once you see that it does this( have to look close) then you can focus on how the pallet functions with the escape wheel. Put the pallet/ lever back into the movement without the balance. wind once or twice, use DeCarles instructions on checking the locking on entrance and exit pallets with the escapewheel, the paper limits this motion for checking run to banking, lock and drop before run to banking, ect…. I think you are super close to figuring this out :geek: . When having the pallets in and a couple of winds on the mainspring just move the pallet lever back and forth, (carefully with the pegwood) as you observe the action between pallet faces/ jewels and escape wheel, should snap back and forth with a light touch to each side. the escapement has to have some power behind it, and should if it has passed the first test we just mentioned, so at this point instead of trying to move your wheels with the pegwood to operate the escapement let the train do the work, you probably know this, but it is very hard to get proper results in the locking, impulse, ect… without power, it should be easier to look at all this with power thru the train. NOW since I am such a newbee, please let me know Bear why DeCarle says to check all 15 teeth on the escape wheel ???? 
WilliamHi B,
getting lots of good responses
with swapping out parts, under decent magnification the eye is quite good at picking out suprisingly small differences. If it looks good, has the same amount of teeth, pinion and wheel heights match, overall length of the arbor with pivots is the same, pivot lengths the same, then the next thing is to try it. You can always check measurements if you run into problems or want to check a certain aspect of what you are swapping. Take your time, be careful and all will be good
Paul.Hey B, I bet you a thousand dollars my head is thicker and harder than yours (oh and by the way probably balder), and frankly I am not sure how I made it this far with myself, but HEY, we are all on a journey, hopefully for the better!?!?
But you know, if anyone can frustrate me it is usually the guy I see in the mirror 😆 Something ssssoooo frustrating today, we laugh at tomorrow 😆 and ask ourselves why we wasted so much energy and time being in a stupor. As far as pictures it took me some time to figure out (not too bright with computers) 
if you look down to the bottom of a page when you are responding on a subject, you will see a tab called “upload attachment” = click on that and it will ask for a file name or to browse for your pictures, I use the browse and go thru the system until I get to my picture file, if you right click your picture file you can change the size of the pic but do not ask me how this all happens, I just got lucky when I did it once 🙄 and just keep doing the same thing, seems to work, anyway, after you select the pic it will load to this area and then you click on add the file. then after that you click on “place file inline”………..well, Paul had put some directions on here somewhere, he is much smarter than me and is a computer wizz. I do not think it would hurt to try it out. SO, B, lift your eyes to the heavens and take a nice deep breath, maybe hit the mental “reset” like I do about a thousand times a day, start a new thread with a pic and a specific thing you are looking at, oh and remember that everything on here is for the benefit of all, so questions, answers and brainstorming ideas are welcome because we all benefit!!!!!! and non of it is wrong, God bless, WilliamHi B,
One of the first clocks I bought was a cheap english smiths alarm in a china case. It wasn’t working. I took it apart and found it had a broken mainsping on the time side but fortunately I had bought a job lot on e-bay so managed to find one to fit. The movement was all cleaned and ready to go back together. That was the problem, I just couldnt work out how it went back together
(This taught me an important lesson and now a digital camera is one of the tools I use the most as I photograph the movement as it comes apart, just in case I need help getting it back together). Over the next two years I would get that clock out, look at the pieces and try but each time I just couldnt do it so it went back in its box and back on the shelf. I had begun to hate that clock only because it kept showing me that I didnt know what I was doing, it was almost laughing at my inexperience.
That clock got left in its box for around six months the last time and when I got it out again it almost fell back together. I sat there with the clock in front of me, finished and ticking away quite happily and I just couldnt belive it had been that simple. Its time B, thats all it is, time and experience. You want to learn, you certainly have the right attitude and it will come together. If something is bugging you just put it away and move on to something else you can do or do a bit of studying so you can get back to it with new ideas and more information. You will always come across problems which you cant figure out straight away, we all do, even Bob Tascione does
Dont take any notice of William, he is much much smarter than I am!
Just remember, we are all in the same position as you, you might feel like we know everything but belive me, we have problems with things as much as you do. You are already way ahead of me with watches as I am just starting to look at them.
Keep up the good work
Paul.
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