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There's a problem with Yuki 7206 bands that drives me nuts. The way the end links are made, you can't get the last link to extend from the endlink and lay nice and flat. Here's a picture showing what I mean. See how the indicated piece protrudes so far, making a lumpy connection from the band to the endlink? I was messing with the band just now and tried something. Flip it over and see the indicated tab? It's in the way preventing you from altering that last-link angle, as delivered. So use a flat screwdriver and push that tab over a smidge so it's more perpendicular to the underside of the band. As shown here: Now you have room to work, and you can twist and push that piece down flatter so the last-link connection looks much more like the genuine band. Et voila' ... smooth non-lumpy flow from endlink to last link to the band.

Actually, it takes a lot more to be helpful than to simply smack newbies around just because they are new. Having said that, newbies can optimize their own forum experience by taking the time to browse, and asking the right question and most importantly, display the right attitude toward learning and contributing meaningfully. One does not have the right to be supercilious just because he has been around longer, but on the flip side, newbies in general should learn to be more polite and less entitled. It is like entering someone else's house party. First you mingle politely and get to know others, and you contribute to the conversations and become known and respected and liked. Soon, you will become part of the party naturally. It is the same at RWG I suppose. Welcome @Seikonoob to the forum!

You are a veteran member and have been very helpful to point several members to your contacts, me included. The intention is good and you’re not responsible for the ill intentions of the buyer my friend. Thank you L and I hope your journey is smooth in this hobby and you never have to face guys like this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I feel terrible cos that idiot approached me first and i then rerouted him to the common friend

All GEN 55X4 except Phong Case. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

My new pam 253. Thank@martycus. Love the strap and watch. Sent from my HTC 10 using Tapatalk

@Ogladio, be careful with the screwdriver when pushing that tab over. I slipped a couple times and really stabbed myself. Put your thumb under the endlink when it's attached to the watch and with your other hand twist the band hard as you push straight down at that protruding piece. This will warp the band relative to the endlink, so press again hard, and twist the band the other way. You'll feel it bending and twisting and giving a little as you push down. It will feel like it went into place, but mostly all you did was open the endlink "clamshell" way too wide. In reality you only moved the protruding piece a little. So keep going, be brutal with it. No mercy. BEND that sumbitch. When you think you got some movement, take the band off and squeeze the "clamshell" of the endlink back down and reinstall the band. See how it looks. It took me 3 or 4 tries to get it where I like it. @droptopman, I have 3 spare Yuki 7206s here, 3 mounted on watches, and I've sold off half a dozen. All of them fit my 20mm lugs just fine. The only one I had trouble with by the too-tall rivets was the MQ band.