Pete

Grazie Mahler ed il vostro inglese è migliore del mio italiano ! Pete

I assume there are enough members to reach 100 ? Pete

Here's one I made earlier...................... Cross Aphex Think I will set the camera to a lower res next time though......... Pete

whats your favorite axe ? It's gotta be my Fender Lite Strat........... Those Seymour Duncans are CRISP! Pete

Start price US$ 65,000 !!!!!!

If you've got about £100 to spend then this back plate does the same as the second coil of a humbucker but retains the single coil sound, it's basically a flat coil the you setup to be out of phase with the pickups so any stray electromagnetic fields get cancelled out. Backplate Silent Single Coil System Pete

What price a P90 for the bridge end ? I've got a lace sensor nr the neck on my Vintage VS6 ( rep SG ! ), my Fender lite strat is gen though and the Seymour Duncan Alnico 2's are so crisp................ I'm in the UK though so getting them here could be more money than it's worth. Pete

There's a link in the links/referance section to the miyota site that shows their mech and quartz movements in detail. Pete

It's the way the bracelet attaches with two claws and how floppy the bracelet looks that makes me suspicious. Pete

Does the bracelet look a bit flimsy ? and is the 7 off centre in the date window ? Look at the bottom left picture, does the bracelet attach like that ? it looks cheap to me....... LookeeLookee Pete

It's not clear from the photo but if you look at the inards, there is a gold cog in the middle, to the right is another similar sized gold cog that appears to be missing the bridge over the top of it's spindle ? or should it be like that ? Pete

I posted a Miyota url in the links/referance on here. Miyota exploded diagrams Pete

Given that you put on your helmit! I reckon you need to throw away your rep dictionary and get a gen one..... Pete

Thanks The Zigmeister, I had a look at the Timezone courses, if I took the second one without the first would I miss much ? I'm mainly interested at this point in gaining the ability to clean and oil my own reps as I get them. I have now bought Donald De Carle's book Practical Watch Repairing which I'm digesting..... the oil BTW is Moebius 8000/4 ? the oiler is simply a very fine metal tube attached to a plastic reservoir. I also have just bought an ETA 2840 V8-Z2B off Ebay to play with, do you know of a referance site for this movement ? the ETA website doesn't appear to list it, it is an automatic and marked as having 23jewels. Re eyeglasses, I already had a 3" loupe from my days in the '70s when I was an instrument engineer ( C&G qualified ! no less ) , I worked on pneumatic and electronic measuring and recording instruments usually used in power stations at the time so am not a stranger to close up tweezer and screwdriver work, I was wondering if the clip on loupes meant for spectacle wearers could be used minus the spectacle lenses ( 48yrs old and so far not needed correction ) to give a better binocular view or are the lenses no use on their own ? Cheers Pete

Having bought Narikaa's strap adjusting toolkit I then bought a movement holder £5, finger puller £3, tiny bottle of meobius oil £3, one drop auto oiler £2, glass fibre pen £3 and attacked my 30yr old watch from my teens....... It wouldn't go and is worthless so I had the perfect victim. It now runs and keeps good time! there was a speck of black ? in between two teeth of the cog driven by the main spring. My question is, how do I get the oil from the tiny bottle into the oiler ? the oiler is a plastic tube with a screw on cap at each end , one end has a tiny metal tube sticking out, if I tip the oil bottle upside down it just sits there without pouring, I dipped the tube in the end to oil the watch ( prob messed that bit up but it is at least running ). Some pics....the movement is REMEX 2641 made in HONG KONG one jewel ( but I found three, one either end of the balance and a single one under the wheel that goes into the escapement). I found the hardest bit was putting the date wheel back together as there is a tiny ratchet that keeps flying apart when you put the plate over it. Uncased ready to start, The other side Fingers off and dial off Datewheel off Front empty Balance wheel out Bridge removed Improvised parts holder, it was a container of blank cd's but the bottom spacer is divided into handy sections and there's a plastic cover for the whole thing to keep dust off. Finally the watch back together and running

Would I be right in thinking a jap Rol day date would have this mechanism in it ? http://www.citizen.co.jp/miyota_mvt/catalo...nical.html#8215 Pete

Urinals Have fun, ladies too.... Pete

Movement Any idea what case would be needed and the likely reason it don't work ? Auction ends 5:51pm Thu 23rd Mar Pete

ebay rolex rep

and put a coupla pics in the gallery under other makes. I was new on the old site and learnt a lot in very short time so if this site can replicate the old one then I'll prob be around here for some time to come. Thanks for setting this up. Pete

This was an experiment today, my Olympus dig camera doesn't have a macro function so I took these by holding a 3" loupe in front of the lens, I need to sort out better lighting and to use a tripod next time but they show promise. The watch is solid SS , saphire crsytal and thanks to Narikaa selling me a toolkit , I've whipped the back off to find a Miyota OS60 quartz movement.