candide2424 Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Hi guys, I searched extensively the fora with no luck. Prior to firing a couple of emails to the vietnamese dealers (Minh, Ruby...), I am wondering whether they offer ETA foot dials more particularly for date subs. Yuki has got some but there is an issue with the DW that is not well located. Thanks for helping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycrounders Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Hi guys, I searched extensively the fora with no luck. Prior to firing a couple of emails to the vietnamese dealers (Minh, Ruby...), I am wondering whether they offer ETA foot dials more particularly for date subs. Yuki has got some but there is an issue with the DW that is not well located. Thanks for helping!Most good Vietnam sellers have gen spec dials and cases. Your best bet is to cut the feet and relocate them to ETA location, and solder or glue them there.They sell new feet as well if the ones that are cut are no longer good.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSebWC Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 You could also use dial dots. they work pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycrounders Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 You could also use dial dots. they work pretty good Yup , those are my first choice for easy dial mounting :-)Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candide2424 Posted August 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 thanks guys, However, I have already cut dial feet and used dial dots in my builds. IMHO this is not satisfactory enough. I had a Whoppy 1680 gen spec eta dial and it was an easy fit on the movement except alignement of DW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automatico Posted August 25, 2018 Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 "...I have already cut dial feet and used dial dots in my builds. IMHO this is not satisfactory enough." I too have tried dd with little success. They are usually Ok for quartz watch projects with light movements, plastic spacers, non screw down crowns etc. I ended up using oem spec dials with the dial feet removed with the dial cemented to a custom made precision fit brass movement spacer with clear 'Gorilla Glue' last time around. I have a lathe and can make the spacers but there are many brass and aluminum spacers available so one that will work should not be hard to find. I doubt plastic spacers would be good for this type of application. I did jam a couple dd between the ID of the spacer and OD of the movement to keep the spacer/dial in the proper position on the movement while mounting the hands...they were fine for that. After the case clamps are tightened down, the movement/dial combo should stay in place as long as the clamps exert enough force to hold it all together. Here is one of the stories: https://rwg.cc/topic/192105-jmb-1016-project-update/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted August 26, 2018 Report Share Posted August 26, 2018 Personally I clip the feet, file smooth, and then epoxy the dial to the ETA dial spacer/platform after verifying proper positioning of date window and centered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candide2424 Posted August 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2018 Thanks JMB, This is also what I have been doing. If this method is no big deal for non date sub, for date subs it is different, I found it tricky as the spacer can still rotate. Personaly I used a couple of dial dots on the side spacer and movement to prevent this from happening. This might not be option though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted August 26, 2018 Report Share Posted August 26, 2018 I put a couple dots of epoxy between the spacer and movement also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycrounders Posted August 26, 2018 Report Share Posted August 26, 2018 UV glue works really well too. Easy to dry with the UV light pen.And comes off really clean when you need it to come off.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic2000 Posted August 26, 2018 Report Share Posted August 26, 2018 UV glue works really well too. Easy to dry with the UV light pen.And comes off really clean when you need it to come off.Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkNever tried UV-glue before. Do you use a special product or just an ordinary one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycrounders Posted August 26, 2018 Report Share Posted August 26, 2018 Never tried UV-glue before. Do you use a special product or just an ordinary one?It is a special glue like what dentists use. Goes on and hardens up when you shine the UV light to it.Tight and hard adhesive. Easy to use with little mess, but the glue needs to be in plain site to shine the UV light. Can’t be hidden, else it will not harden up and stick.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capice Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 23 hours ago, nycrounders said: It is a special glue like what dentists use. Goes on and hardens up when you shine the UV light to it. Tight and hard adhesive. Easy to use with little mess, but the glue needs to be in plain site to shine the UV light. Can’t be hidden, else it will not harden up and stick. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk good tip, I was a bit relucktant on soldering but if this works there is no danger of damaging the dail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 I've got some of this and have used it on glass but never thought of trying it for gluing dials... https://www.amazon.com/3M-18051-Glass-Adhesive-06-Ounce/dp/B007XUOA6A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automatico Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 I mentioned that I used clear 'Gorilla Glue' to stick the dial to the movement spacer on my last project. I'll stick a dial to a spacer with it later today and see how good it holds after it sets up and post the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automatico Posted August 30, 2018 Report Share Posted August 30, 2018 I stuck a brass dial to a brass spacer with 'Gorilla Glue' and left it 48 hours. It holds pretty good but still came off easily. Maybe it's not as good as two part epoxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickFlorida Posted August 30, 2018 Report Share Posted August 30, 2018 Yeah I make jewelry and I don't know even know how you could really solder on dial feet onto an already printed/painted dial. There is a super low temperature solder called "Tix" that we use in jewelry for when we want to use low temperature but even that requires some heat that I would think would burn up the paint/print on a dial. Who as ever soldered feet onto a printed/painted dial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyB Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 The date wheel for the ETA movement is more outside than the Rolex datewheel. That's why we use date wheel overlays on ETA and DG movements to line up the date in the window of a Rolex positioned date window. The replica manufacturers make their dials that fit ETA or that fit DG with the date window in the Rolex position and use an overlay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillo Posted September 5, 2018 Report Share Posted September 5, 2018 On 8/24/2018 at 9:33 PM, candide2424 said: Hi guys, the vietnamese dealers (Minh, Ruby...), Sorry sir, I know Phong-jewelryandwatch and yuki. There are others sellers ? Thanks for info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candide2424 Posted September 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2018 9 hours ago, lillo said: Sorry sir, I know Phong-jewelryandwatch and yuki. There are others sellers ? Thanks for info. http://rubyswatch.com/ and vintagewatchesmq.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillo Posted September 6, 2018 Report Share Posted September 6, 2018 15 hours ago, candide2424 said: http://rubyswatch.com/ and vintagewatchesmq.com/ tanks !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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