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Uncle Bill wrote:Rick, let us know what your repairer says about the Seiko... UB
Will do UB,think he is having trouble with the alarm feature,spare parts or something like that.Will get back to you when i know :D
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Just a small update on the Bell-matic.
Disconnecting lever is broken,had to buy an old broken Bell-matic on E bay,waiting for it it to arrive and give it to my watch repairer to strip for spares. 8)
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Roger... UB
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El Tiempo wrote:Image
That would have been a great photo to post when we were all guessing what CW looks like. :D
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Rick wrote:Just a small update on the Bell-matic.
Disconnecting lever is broken,had to buy an old broken Bell-matic on E bay,waiting for it it to arrive and give it to my watch repairer to strip for spares. 8)
Finally got the watch back but it's not the same.
It looks quite nice but it no longer original.
I have ended up with what's known as a Franken-bell.
Bits from two watches to make one good one.Although my original blue faced watch was the one i wanted repairing i have ended up with the face and hands from the donor watch as they are in better condition.
However,I have to say i am well pleased with the price.
Parts changed,cleaned,service,timed and all running for a price of just £30!!!!
One happy bunny :D 8)
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Glad you are happy Rick. Sorry it didn't work out as hoped.
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joerattz wrote:
El Tiempo wrote:Image
That would have been a great photo to post when we were all guessing what CW looks like. :D
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Kip wrote:Glad you are happy Rick. Sorry it didn't work out as hoped.
Thanks Kip :D
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I think you now have a Joinenbittenchunkawatchenforheavenseiko...How's it wearing?...UB :)
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Uncle Bill wrote:I think you now have a Joinenbittenchunkawatchenforheavenseiko...How's it wearing?...UB :)
I like it UB.
The bracelets a bit tight i have to say,i need to modify it a bit in some way as it's at full stretch.
Can't fit a strap because of the lug fitting,pretty sure i've seen some sort of clasp extender somewhere.
Will post some pics when i have sorted it out :D
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Uncle Bill wrote:Don't worry about the radioactivity on older watches. It will make a meter scream, but its very short range radiation and won't harm you - on the exterior of your body, that is. It worried me at first, as some of my older finds did this, so I checked them out a bit careful, like! Anybody contemplating internal use should disregard the foregoing... UB :) (To be serious, they're Alpha particles which are very short range and can be stopped by tissue paper. If. however, the source were to get into an open wound or be ingested it could be very dangerous as the particles will destroy cells. Do not eat old watches or use them as suppositories... )
Short story but true. One of my departments had a guy called Reg. He was an instrument man but before he joined the company he had repaired watches. Anyway he set up 'business' within the company, he had a young family, to repair watches and sell stuff which was great and we called him Regomart. Well he got ill and they diagnosed pollips in his intestine. They can be cancerous. Well just after he started (going back) we were having a chat and I knew the building that here had worked in, London way, and it was Smiths Instruments. Then Kodak went in there and had terrible problems with fogged film. They left. I put two and two together and it was radioactive particles from the lume. Going forwards, he lost his insides and had a bag which didn't affect his work. Trouble is that pollips run in families and so his sons had to be rectically checked, for the pollips, frequently.

Turns out that when they were repairing instruments, they used to lick the brushes that held the radioactive lume. When we were talking it came out and I told him how he got sick. He cried. Without realising what he was doing, he ingested high levels of strong radioactive particles and further put his family through the grinder as well.

So dont knock Health and Safety at work because my friend Reg was not looked after at all.
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Very sad story Yoda. I hope that others have learned from this. It seems I read of similar events in a watch magazine some time ago.
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Just remembered where I saw steel strap extenders - At RLT watches, down the bottom of the page of steel straps.... http://www.rltwatches.co.uk/acatalog/Bracelets.html ....UB.. :)
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Thank you UB.
Thats where i saw them before.Will go pay a visit right now :D
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Got my strap extender fitted and watch is complete.
Not only does it extend but it stretches to,two pieces of metal with a spring inside.
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http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff19 ... C00202.jpg
Not the best pictures in the world but you get the idea. :D
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