Best Technique To Seperate A Sadwich Dial?

[ravishingrick]

Hi,

I have a sandwich dial relumed with superlume, but the dial has some imperfections. I would like to replace the top layer of the superlumed sandich dial with a brandnew one.

What is the best way to seperate the sandwich dials layers? With a raiserblade? has anyone got a few pointers for me?

Regards,

RR.

[ubiquitous]

I use a reazorblade to seperate the assembly. Take your time and don't rush it. You definitely don't want to damage the dial lume, but more importantly, you don't want to slice your fingers/hand open either.

[Usil]

What holds the two layers together? Are they glued?

Usil

[Finepics]

They are indeed glued together around the edge and in the centre. I use a long scalpel blade.

[Usil]

So, if you seperate the two halves, applying lume is easy for this part since you just apply it at each number location? The hands are the tricky part for this type of dial.

Usil

[ravishingrick]

cheerz mates.. thx for the great tips...

[flavor flav]

don't apply too much lume....you can make it too thick to mount the second hand.....also be sure to let the dial dry for 48 hours before you reassemble the watch....i learned the hard way and melted the dial print and lume off the hands from the fumes trapped inside the watch! easy to do....just give it time to dry!.....also a razorblade is fine and works well.

[fendushi]

Luming sandwich dials is trickier than I thought. Be careful not to get any lume on the edges of the markers... it could really look crap when photographed.

I had mine lumed but there is too much access lume on the edge of the markers. If your watchsmith is not experienced in luming... it's best to leave it as it is.