I was forced to work on my SSD

[Rxus]

So I picked up one of Josh'd bargain noob SSD's... it arrived well packaged but it had 2 flaws

1. Speck of dust on the inside of the crystal.

2. Weak pimple pearl.

I'm only human so I can only tackle one job at a time, and here are some pics i took to go along with it.

First off the watch

I used a blue ball from fleabay to open watches..it worked great by the way.

I pulled out the stem

And with it the movement and dial came out with ease, i used a small dust blower to remove the unwanted speck and before putting it back together I borrowed some ideas from another tutorial to fix my fading black engravings from the case back.

I used a sharpie as so

Then from the same tutorial I used some nail polish remover and a shirt to wipe out the excess and viola!

Sorry for my crude pictures and well the fact that i can never live up to the great authors and photographers we have on this board, but i tried, and i hope you have enjoyed.

[JoeyDee]

good stuff dude well done!

[Toadtorrent]

It is satisfying when you can do some of the work yourself. Congrats! It's a great piece.

[gioarmani]

Excellent start.