Ploprof Crystal

[sfa437]

Well you're all aware of my neverending story watching my crystal delaminate. Never got the SOB to separate but I did manage to clear up some of the delamination with a little bit of Wahl Machine Oil.

I also managed to get the thing out of the case without removing the bezel. An old watchmaker once said "If you're forcing it, you're doing it wrong". I said "Eff him" and took a 1" wooden dowel and a claw hammer to the thing and got it out after 3 solid whacks

Here's what it looks like with the laminate structure obvious:

Here's the measurement of the crystal for those worried about the same thing happening

Seems to be 29.5mm x 5mm My calipers took a shlt so I couldn't get a spot-on measurement

Good news is that it is simply a round crystal and not like the gen construction and should be easy to source!

[gran]

Great help and yes the hammer always works..wish Highflyingclive was here to see this

[jchurch]

Seems like a solid sapphire would be easy enough to get just need to get someone into making some lol.

[HauteHippie]

As mentioned in the other thread, solid sapphire 5mm is not going to be cheap.

I suspect this thing is repairable. You'd just need to separate the two pieces, clean off the mating surfaces, and reglue with the proper adhesive.

[ChipSlap]

That is astonishing that somebody would use water-soluble adhesive for this application.

I think they sent the Wicked Witch of the West to the glue factory and came up with this.