Nanuq

Success! It's not a fattie MkIII but it's not bad.

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!” -Herman Melville

Caddyshack

I hope you made it home safely, Micky. Now get a pen and paper and write down every detail of that day with your mom, and this incredible journey. Some day she'll be gone and you'll live with the ache the rest of your life. But reading what you're about to put on paper will bring a smile.

sailing

Moderation in all things, including moderation.

You can complain that rose bushes have thorns, or you can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.

A: stuck my finger in the spinning disc brake on my mtn bike and cut it off. Q: coldest place you've ever camped out?

"You are a hell of a lot stronger than you think you are. That will always be true."

Head

Wingtip

Yeah baby!!! That will do it for sure!

Yeah tell me about it........

I want to live to be worthy of my dog's affection.

A: nothing can "make" me happy. The happiness is already inside, and it is expressed through playing and doing activities with kids. That's when it bubbles to the surface. Q: there is an intangible quality to analog music that makes it "feel" better than digital music. Is this the same quality that drives our fascination with mechanical watches?

This is a very hard time, but I'm so glad you're there with her. It would be 1000 times worse if you were trying to get on a plane. Hold her hand and talk to her. She hears you. Treasure this day.

Thanks for the suggestions gents, I tried a little pressure last night to click it in place. Now I need a new bezel.

"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than did they, not because our sight is superior nor because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours." John of Salisbury ca. 1159

@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.

"I have a dream. I dream of a world where chickens can cross roads without having their motives questioned". Q: will time travel ever be possible? (This is an easy one)

Yes but only because this one is a cheap MQ band. The Yukis all fit me okay.

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.

"He's only mostly dead."

Yep, I've got both the MQ and Phong bezel, and no matter how hard I press I cannot click the thing into place. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr There will be suffering in Asgard!!!!!

Someone suggested I try a little heat to help with the install. Didn't work.