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 This one's for you, TakesAlickin! Also an apology to Bre'r Fox...   Ricky Lee May 03, 2009 09:35AM |
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This one's for you, TakesAlickin! Also an apology to Bre'r Fox... Ricky Lee May 03, 2009 09:35AM |
Registered: April 2005 Posts: 2,608 (2009-04) |
And the apology, Bro. Fox, is 'cause I reported in the 
Data Link post that the 
Triple-Date, was "dead as a doornail". Well, as it turns out, 'twas I who was dead wrong! 
It lives! 
Never occurred to me to doubt a "fresh" factory-new battery, so I put
it back in the pack and wrote the Armitron off. Fast forward to
yesterday afternoon, and a friend stops by with a dead quartz watch. I
pull the same battery back out and.. nothing. WTH?! I know this watch should work, so I try a fresh Energizer cell and, sure enough, she takes right off!
The moral of the story - do NOT buy cheap batteries! Mind you, these
T&E cells can be had for 18-cents per, vs. 48-cents for an
Energizer. But if you can't trust the SOB, is it a valid savings? Not
to me! And, yeah, I did use another T&E cell. Hey, I gotta use these things up to get rid of 'em, right? 
that the 3rd watch you retired to RLHfWW, the
But look beyond the wabi and the obvious built-to-a-price nature of
Armitron, and this is actually quite a solid and fetching watch. It
sports a screw-down caseback (unusual for the marque!), screw-down
crowns (the crown at 4 controls the date functions), and didn't ship a
drop of water during the requisite scrubbing with Barkeepers Friend and
Brasso. Yeah, I checked. 
The case and bezel shape work for me, and work well together. And I loooove those blue auxiliary hands! Shoot, the main hands are quite nice, too.
! I might have been able to break it loose with a pipe wrench but, hey, I don't even use rotating bezels much, sooo... ) And, no, I can't in good conscience trot out the ol' cliche..
It still looks like it's "been dug up out of the ground", I know. But you know what? I still like it! 
This one's for you, TakesAlickin! Also an apology to Bre'r Fox... (Views : 51)(Views : 7) I will be adding that to the (not quite) Complete List of Watch Forum Cliches forthwith! 
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  My watch exploded! Ricky Lee May 20, 2009 11:41AM |
Registered: April 2005 Posts: 3,441 (2009-07) |
My watch exploded! (Views: 123) Nothing that 1/2 an ounce of C4 can´t make worse (n/t) (Views: 8) 
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Though Humpty Dumpty is not QUITE back together again.. Ricky Lee May 21, 2009 02:27AM |
Registered: April 2005 Posts: 3,441 (2009-07) |
The question is not if me wrist will turn green, but when. 
and the battery $0.48, so I make it 
$2.98. What a nice round number! Surely a' foine 
So the main crown threads won't engage. 
brother, Dave Murphy, I'd had a wee ladies pint o' ale to steady me nerve afore I assembled the watch. So you'll understand that, in me Right-thinking Scots Anger, I quaffed another and called it a night. "Prudence is the greater part of valor".
Though Humpty Dumpty is
not QUITE back together again.. (Views: 102) (n/t) (Views: 7) Aw shucks, 'tweren't nothin' much. (n/t) (Views: 4) (Views: 7)Ahhhh.. good theory, but 'tis not a matter of peened threads. I examined the crown tube under a 50X scope, and the threads are A-ok. Problem is, the threads in theQuote
Dave Murphy
>>an expert machinist such as yourself can un-peen those threads, no? I would try an internal carbide threading tool, held by hand, so you can get up to the shoulder.
pot-metal crown were already partially stripped out (a mere ~ 1/3 turn
engagement), and with a Caveman like meself operatin' them, they
finally just gave up the ghost. 
The solution is obvious, if not necessarily easy - source a new (or good used) crown. Right. That works!Quote
Dave Murphy
And don't try to cut with the tool. Just massage the thread flanks with the relieved portion of the tool, just below center. My guess is that you may just burnish those threads back to where they belong.
Of course, if it doesn't work, use the threader to cut.
I rather like the subtle almost-too-light-to-really-be-called Gold hue. Dang, Dave, who was your Guinea Pig yesterday? (Views: 7)Seriously, sounds intriguing! Got any photos of what kind of finish ye model railroaders get?Quote
Dave Murphy
>> Since you are down to base metal, which seems to be copper based, how about going down to the hobby shop and picking up a bottle of "Blacken-it"?
It's a product that model railroaders use to blacken brass.
I could strip it with alcohol or acetone, I guess. But, also, I want to
do a jackleg 'durability test' on the waxed finish, for at least a week
or two. If my wrist don't turn green afore then I might have somethin.. Where did you get the blue NATO band? .... (Views: 7) (n/t) (Views: 8) Thank You! (n/t) (Views: 6) (n/t) (Views: 6) (n/t) (Views: 7) 'tis merely one sheet to the wind I am this
e'en! (n/t) (Views: 7) (n/t) (Views: 6) Forgot the Lume Shot! Sorry, ChrisL! (Views: 12) |
Catalog Shots especially fer Mr. hifisapi! Ricky Lee May 26, 2009 04:53AM |
Registered: April 2005 Posts: 3,441 (2009-07) |
$2.98 And freshly serviced w/ new crystal & battery, too!