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Nobody is denying the fact that he's a skilled watchsmith and had multiple good dealings with RWG members. But what's the big picture, what's his contribution to the forum? He's dodged requests to discuss the modifications that he performs and the majority of his posts read like a used car salesman spiels. He's using the board not to share and discuss but as an extension of his business without being an approved trusted dealer. Read his posts, they are simply presales; all of his "I built this for myself" & "keepers" would show up in the FS section within days of posting in the PAM section. The fact that he used lesser OP parts packaging like screws, etc. in crafty ways, made photographs of OEM parts from angles that would preclude proper identification, used creative selling techniques, e.g. stating the parts were OEM when they were stock or modified ETA -- all tell me that he was just trouble waiting to happen. However, I support the ban not because Rockarep was operating in the "gray area". I support the ban due to the fact that Rockarep lied to the membership and the admin team by making and using a virtual shill account to promote his sales and badmouth other sellers whom he thought were his competitors.

I'm home. There are a few TC Subs I need to finish for members so I'll be slow in response on PM and emails in the following few days. I also want to finish two of my articles: Tour to the dial and hands factory, and Tour to the TC 93250 V3 Bracelet factory before memories are still fresh. They're vital evidences the top league Swiss brands out-source their manufacturing in China. One of a major Swiss brand is so out of the line the entire manufacturing and assembling are done in China, the movements in the watches we think Swiss made and hold value in are actually made in and assembled in Thailand. My seller introduced me to the Asian Clone ETA movement maker. We had a pleasant morning meeting talking about future possibilities of clone ETA. My seller also introduced me to the SA3135 movement maker. We had a night long talk reviewing spec charts and manufacturing how-to. It was pleasant for geeks like us. Edited: I received an email from a fellow member suggesting not to reveal crucial information about the SA3135 V2 because the Chinese Communist Party's protecting umbrella doesn't reach too far in the Western hemisphere. I dig that. I would discuss the movement matter with you later. I met one of my seller's senior fellow apprentice and he showed my his latest project in ceramic: Real cool project!

Finally got some net access sorted which allowed me to upload some photos easily A few weeks back I visited my parents, and my mother had some old scraps of bag webbing, which she wondered if I could use for anything. One piece, I used to make a webbing belt to carry my machette, the others, I brought home for future consideraton, when one morning, I decided to use them to make a watch strap to wear while camping that would take a reasonable amount of abuse, but still look okay I was considering making a velcro strap, but hadn't got any of that Vulcan wonder-material and no cash to buy more, so I was limited to the scraps of webbing and the buckles/sliders they already had fitted. In the end, I came up with a design which uses tension as the primary structural force, with a section of wider webbing which loops back on itself to create initial tension round the wrist, with a narrower strip of webbing, with the watch fitted NATO-style, which then continues to wrap round before passing through a buckle as a fastener. It holds reasonably securely, and although the thin strip does move about laterally over the thicker strap, it seldom requires re-tightening. I can't offer to make any more of these, as I simply don't have the materials, but just wanted to share what I'd done main buckle to create the initial tension, and secondary buckle to provide the fastener

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beautiful Cubeistan! For me I'm still wearing this beauty