Tribal Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) Hello, i decided to post This thread as a small tutorial... I wanted to change the datewheel from my SD 1665 because the Datenumbers where not bold enough for me... I bought a better datewheeloverlay on the bay.. Thats a short "how to do" tutorial for the selfmakers here.. Here we go Comparsion of the datewheels Resamble the movemt from the case The hands must bes set to 12' o clock,cover the dial with paper to beware it for damgages Remove the hands Remove the Dial,its glued on the movement,you get it off with a small nife,pull the Knife on the ring where the dial is glued.. Take the knife to pull off the datewheeloverlay paitently After the Ovelay is off, take some glue and put it on the datewheel and allign it. you get best results when you allign the numbers to the middle of the stem put the Dial on the movemnt for a test,when its okay,you can install the hands at 12'o clock than all the same way back and thats the result.. Hope this helps.... Edited October 16, 2006 by Tribal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionsandtigers Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 nice one tribal, when i build the nerve up to do this, i gotta fix the datewheel on my 1680 white sub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted October 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 nice one tribal, when i build the nerve up to do this, i gotta fix the datewheel on my 1680 white sub I think you can try it. Its not so hard to do.... take a cheap rep to attempt to resamble... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionsandtigers Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 the taking it apart is not what worries me, i've done that time and time again, its the seperating the overlay on the datewheel that makes me nervous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x86uops Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 Nice tutorial, Tribal. I hope to do stuff like this someday. Perhaps I should get an old el cheapo sub to practice with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted October 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) the taking it apart is not what worries me, i've done that time and time again, its the seperating the overlay on the datewheel that makes me nervous Thats not so hard to do... Take a small cutterknife to seperate the Overlay from the datewheel... Go paitently under the overlay and work around it... Than you get it easy off.... To allign it,take your time you can take it off severall times... After that you get good results.. Good luck.. Edited October 16, 2006 by Tribal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted October 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 nice one tribal, when i build the nerve up to do this, i gotta fix the datewheel on my 1680 white sub I have changed the Overlay on my Sub too.. I think its a big improvment.. Look here.. My 1680 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heywood Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Kudos to you! Nice work and a good tutorial too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cskent69 Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Tribal. Very nice - you got guts. Can you put up a link to the place you bought the datewheel? Where on the bay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWG Technical Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Great tutorial, thanks for posting this, looks good with the new datewheel... RG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauteHippie Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 What are you using to remove the hands? A Presto hands remover shouldn't damage the dial. Just curious. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted October 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 What are you using to remove the hands? A Presto hands remover shouldn't damage the dial. Just curious. Thanks. yes it could,no damage really but small dinks on the dial... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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