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Brother, Can You Spare a Datewheel?


freddy333

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What do you mean by Metalized version, The one I have is from UBI and is a sticker version. I did not know there was another version.

I mean the original MBW datewheel overlay, which came glued on top of the ETA datewheel in vintage MBW Subs & Seadwellers (at least it came glued to my ETA 2846's datewheel). The MBW overlay is made out of a thin sheet of metal, maybe aluminum, and has the (serifed) dates painted onto it.

I have the Watchmeister overlay (UBI's sticker) in there now, but it is causing frequent problems, so I want to go back to the original MBW metalized datewheel. Unfortunately, I smeared the printing on the MBW overlay while I was working on something else (look at the 1, 2, 3 & 4).

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why not make a high res scan of it and than can everybody print it thereself on plastic

I do not have a way to print onto plastic, but I did try copying the Watchmeister datewheel onto a matte DVD label. The material is similar to what the Watchmeister sticker is made from, but it does not seem to stretch or pull out of shape as much. This was a slight improvement over the Watchmeister material, but it still did not seem very stable.

I scanned the Watchmeister overlay (at 1200dpi @ 48-bit color) and produced a master TIFF image that I used to print onto DVD label stock. This is a smaller jpg version of the master that I used

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But, to be reliable over time, these things really need to be made out of metal.

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