My Amish watchmaker friend, lacking the internet as a discussion tool, mailed me the following question:

"I have seen numerous broken pallet arbor pivots and two broken pallet fork arms in my career from Waltham's '92 Model. They are notorious for broken parts because slightly inexperienced watchmakers do not realize that there is a certain technique in removing the upper plate. What have others done to repair the damage without scrapping another 1892 movement for parts?"

Eric, That is sort of a rhetorical question. Neither of these options has anything to do with scrapping the movement which is far too valuable to scrap for this reason.
If the pallet pivot breaks, one must re-staff the pallet arm. If the Pallet fork breaks off they need a new pallet fork assembly.

I'm thinking he wants to avoid robbing one from another movement, and is looking for an alternative. This is the kind of guy who could probably make a pallet fork from scratch but would prefer to alter a close replacement.

Eric, Please find out what he needs so we can try to be of help with this.

It would be interesting to see this mans shop.I'm sure without electricity he has to use a treadle to run his lathe.What about lighting,kerosene? Where did he get his training? I know a lot of Amish around here and none of them have watchmaking skills.