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New super AR crystal on my PO. A fantastic improvement from the AR on the rep crystal.

Wednesday... .

New arrival

Not as Powerful as....'Would you mind picking up my soap..luvverboy ?'

No new info yet, these reps take a while, should know more by March/April. If you want to follow proceedings then there is a progress thread here (but still no news since case prototype) http://www.repgeek.c...=187824&page=33

woo-hoo! happy new year!!! Just in from Andy Schuren (thanks andy):

Great to see your back posting, missed your presence on here mate

From what we gathered on here this one is based on a phong case, and yes go for it it's a fantastic piece to build I'm just fitting up a new bracelet on it and having fun with the end links atm ! If you want the build specs just pm me aero

Nice!

Haaaaaaa!! Here we are laboring under the false impression that we have any say over what our SWMBO wants to wear??! Haaaaa!!!! Bling away! (covering my eyes)

Gentlemen et al. As we continue this lively and spirited debate, I implore all of you - our foreign friends included - to do a modicum of research on Early U.S. History. In the U.S. we used to teach "Civics" in which we all learned about why our government was formed, how it was formed, etc. amongst other things any citizen should know. We stopped teaching this class years ago, for reasons unbeknownst to me. (as an aside, I would venture any new citizen being admitted to the the United States in the last 10 years knows more about this than any born and bred citizen simply by fact that they are required to learn it before taking the oath of citizenship). There have been many things asserted in this debate that are complete and utter falsehoods or misunderstandings of factual events and histories. Additionally, do not make the mistake of applying today's ways and customs to the past. That cannot work. Also, do not make the mistake of thinking that because we are in the future, we are smarter or more wise today than those of the past - Philosophers, Statesmen, Educators, etc.. Case in point, if we were, we'd know exactly how they built the pyramids of Egypt. Let us also be clear about another phenomenon. MANY (not all) countries who today do not have "armed citizens" in the way we think of here in the U.S. at one time in their history did. They were taken away at some point in history through violent change in government, war, military occupation etc. This also nearly happened in the Colonies and as I pointed out earlier, it is crystal clear in The Declaration of Independence that the Colonist WERE living in a police/military state. They knew the only way to protect themselves against a tyrannical or oppressive government were the checks and balances the designed. And, finally, while several of our Founding Fathers became notable Statesmen and Presidents in history, it is more important to remember the other signers of The Declaration of Independence all of whom signed the document knowing full well the treason to Great Britain they were committing and the death warrant they signing. By Gary Hildrith "Have you ever wondered what happened to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence? This is the price they paid: Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the fifty-six fought and died from wounds or hardships resulting from the Revolutionary War. These men signed, and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor! What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants. Nine were farmers and large plantation owners. All were men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty could be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. Perhaps one of the most inspiring examples of "undaunted resolution" was at the Battle of Yorktown. Thomas Nelson, Jr. was returning from Philadelphia to become Governor of Virginia and joined General Washington just outside of Yorktown. He then noted that British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headqurt, but that the patriot's were directing their artillery fire all over the town except for the vicinity of his own beautiful home. Nelson asked why they were not firing in that direction, and the soldiers replied, "Out of respect to you, Sir." Nelson quietly urged General Washington to open fire, and stepping forward to the nearest cannon, aimed at his own house and fired. The other guns joined in, and the Nelson home was destroyed. Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis's Long Island home was looted and gutted, his home and properties destroyed. His wife was thrown into a damp dark prison cell without a bed. Health ruined, Mrs. Lewis soon died from the effects of the confinement. The Lewis's son would later die in British captivity, also. "Honest John" Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she lay dying, when British and Hessian troops invaded New Jersey just months after he signed the Declaration. Their thirteen children fled for their lives. His fields and his grist mill were laid to waste. All winter, and for more than a year, Hart lived in forests and caves, finally returning home to find his wife dead, his children vanished and his farm destroyed. Rebuilding proved too be too great a task. A few weeks later, by the spring of 1779, John Hart was dead from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. New Jersey's Richard Stockton, after rescuing his wife and children from advancing British troops, was betrayed by a loyalist, imprisoned, beaten and nearly starved. He returned an invalid to find his home gutted, and his library and papers burned. He, too, never recovered, dying in 1781 a broken man. William Ellery of Rhode Island, who marveled that he had seen only "undaunted resolution" in the faces of his co-signers, also had his home burned. Only days after Lewis Morris of New York signed the Declaration, British troops ravaged his 2,000-acre estate, butchered his cattle and drove his family off the land. Three of Morris' sons fought the British. When the British seized the New York houses of the wealthy Philip Livingston, he sold off everything else, and gave the money to the Revolution. He died in 1778. Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge and Thomas Heyward Jr. went home to South Carolin tight. In the British invasion of the South, Heyward was wounded and all three were captured. As he rotted on a prison ship in St. Augustine, Heyward's plantation was raided, buildings burned, and his wife, who witnessed it all, died. Other Southern signers suffered the same general fate. Among the first to sign had been John Hancock, who wrote in big, bold script so George III "could read my name without spectacles and could now double his reward for 500 pounds for my head." If the cause of the revolution commands it, roared Hancock, "Burn Boston and make John Hancock a beggar!" Here were men who believed in a cause far beyond themselves. I ask you to afford them similar courtesies

What a trip! To have a watch telling you DIE at 10!! Looks nice though! Never seen a blue one of these.

New Jersey

Thanks again gents the pleasure has been mine.

If you were conus I'd ship you a loaner. The horror a watchless member, will someone in EU rectify this problem post hast!

If you want a gun and you have the money, you can get a gun. I don't care where in the world you are or what the laws are. Mentally unstable people with guns are the least of problems surrounding violence committed with guns. We don't need to "fix" anyone, society has created an environment in which people have increasingly become more willing to take another human life in anger or for gain. What happened in this country (and others) that even with ever increasing gun restriction measures people are killing each other in higher numbers? It wasn't like this in the 50's, what's changed? It isn't the ease of access to weapons capable of ending a human life. Its the ease of conscience in taking a human life. The truth is its easier and more pleasant to believe that you can pass a law and fix a problem, easier than it is to accept the fact that in order for peoples behavior to change that person must choose to change. Anyone that has seen a problem in themselves will attest to the fact that changing your own behavior is a very difficult thing indeed. Changing someone else's behavior is nigh impossible and anyone that believes that they can make someone else change is a fool.

Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. If gun control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago, because there have been too many factual studies over the years to leave any serious doubt about gun control laws being not merely futile but counterproductive. Places and times with the strongest gun control laws have often been places and times with high murder rates. Washington, D.C., is a classic example, but just one among many. When it comes to the rate of gun ownership, that is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks. For the country as a whole, hand gun ownership doubled in the late 20th century, while the murder rate went down. The few counter-examples offered by gun control zealots do not stand up under scrutiny. Perhaps their strongest talking point is that Britain has stronger gun control laws than the United States and lower murder rates. But, if you look back through history, you will find that Britain has had a lower murder rate than the United States for more than two centuries — and, for most of that time, the British had no more stringent gun control laws than the United States. Indeed, neither country had stringent gun control for most of that time. More guns, less crime In the middle of the 20th century, you could buy a shotgun in London with no questions asked. New York, which at that time had enforced the stringent Sullivan Law restricting gun ownership since 1911, still had several times the gun murder rate of London, as well as several times the London murder rate with other weapons. Neither guns nor gun control was the reason for the difference in murder rates. People were the difference. Yet many of the most zealous advocates of gun control laws, on both sides of the Atlantic, have also been advocates of leniency toward criminals. In Britain, such people have been so successful that legal gun ownership has been reduced almost to the vanishing point, while even most convicted felons in Britain are not put behind bars. The crime rate, including the rate of crimes committed with guns, is far higher in Britain now than it was back in the days when there were few restrictions on Britons buying firearms. In 1954, there were only a dozen armed robberies in London but, by the 1990s — after decades of ever tightening gun ownership restrictions — there were more than a hundred times as many armed robberies. Gun control zealots' choice of Britain for comparison with the United States has been wholly tendentious, not only because it ignored the history of the two countries, but also because it ignored other countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico. All of these countries have higher murder rates than the United States. You could compare other sets of countries and get similar results. Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland. Guns are not the problem. People are the problem — including people who are determined to push gun control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts. There is innocent ignorance and there is invincible, dogmatic and self-righteous ignorance. Every tragic mass shooting seems to bring out examples of both among gun control advocates. - Thomas Sowell Columnist and Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

I usually try to stay out of these discussions, but consider this: If there was a ban on clips holding more than x rounds, would all the criminals throw their hands up in the air and bemoan their large capacity clips? No. If there was a law banning guns on school grounds, would that stop a psychopath from taking a gun to an elementary school? No. It's not a gun problem. Society is broken. It's full of broken people. One of the consequences is these heinous acts. Fix the broken people, and there won't be anyone left that needs to kill a classroom full of children. I think the Boy Scouts is a good place to start. Teach character, ethics, duty, responsibility, and teach them to value other people. Then watch them teach their friends. It can be contagious. There's step #1 of the Nanuq Solution.

It has nothing to do with the quality of the gears. It has to do with the gear ratio. As a metaphor I will use a mountain bike. 1. Say you put the back in a high gear (big wheel) and the front in a low gear (small wheel). You can peddle very easily up a steep hill right... -->That's how they make it possible for the rotor to wind a powerful main spring very easily. 2. Now say you want to peddle up that same hill but you change gears the other way around (small in the back and big in the front). Going up that hill would almost be impossible giving the strength our legs can provide. Now if we hypothetically could mount a v12 Chevy block on the front gear and would give full throttle what would happen you think?.... You would strip the teeth (most probably on the big gear) as it is not calculated for that amount of torque. It's a matter of physics. -->That's exactly what happens on the 7750 if you hand wind it too fast. That's right... You can hand wind it all you want as long as you do is slow in order not to strip the teeth on the intermediate winding wheel (so low torque). Otherwise your hand wind will be like the Chevy V12 in my example. On over winding a 7750 I can be clear. That is simply not possible as the main spring has a bridle (slippage system) like all automatic watches. If the tension build up by the main spring gets too much the bridle will slip en thus letting off tension. Off course this only applies if the main spring and barrel walls are greased appropriately. It has nothing to do with the weight of the hand. Normally two issues can cause it. A poorly finished tilting pinion or a weak chrono second wheel tension spring. The stutter comes from the slack between the teeth of the gears. I have seen a lot of genuines with the same stutter on the chrono second hand (that's the hand you are talking about). With our reps it normally is the tilting pinion and the poorly finished teeth.. sometimes in combination with the spring. With genuines it almost always is the tension spring. But rest assure. I does not affect time keeping or reliability in any way. Do a search on google: "stutter second hand 7750 "

Great information. Thanks for sharing/pinning. This also brings to mind a question regarding tubes for the 6mm crown (24-603-0) I used the 24-5320 tube on a Noob Exp.II:( it screwed right into the case like it was machined for it) to install the 24-603 crown. But I've read of the 24-5330 being used in the Noob case as well. Does anyone hapen to know the difference between tubes 24-5330 and 24-5320...both for the 6mm crown.??