Quartz time

Now with added thinness

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Speaking of thin, there was something up with this one:

It only ran for half an hour or so after a battery change; same thing happened last time I changed it but I put it down to a bad battery. Oh well... There was a crack in the lens anyway.

Had a bit of a browse for replacements; saw a few but the only one I saw the same was a bit silly expensive (NOS)... Saw this other NOS one for $75, then it was knocked down to $32, a no-brainer (didn't come with the flash band, obvs).

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NOS DBX-100 arrived 😃

No leaks inside it; it fired straight up with fresh batteries. I read somewhere the screen bleed is due to air getting in; maybe I can fix that with my vacuum pump. The screen from the old one only has a tiny bit of bleed.

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My new daily! I was hoping to find an old stock one with 'japanese quartz'.

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Keep us posted! I'm waiting on parts, but I kind of like how the older metal body G-Shocks look without bezels.

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Nice! What are your plans for it?

Ultimately a new bezel for it, (someone makes good aftermarket copies) and I'll use it as an everyday beater. It's a bit of a mish mash of parts from different sources; it isn't technically the right module for the case, but it fits and the buttons match the functions. The case has a big chip, but it's on the inside and a replacement crystal is near impossible to find (Casio changed the size and shape over the years). I think it adds character, personally!

Yay!

So I sandwiched the bleedy screen between a couple of bits of watch glass from some cheap analogs, and sealed it up with some hot glue and a tube running from it... Fired up the vacuum pump and got nothing. Hm. Busted out the heat gun and gave it a bit, only to realise that would make the glue fail.

But then I noticed the black splodges had changed... I got all the glue out of the picture and turned the upper glass over - one side was flat and the other slightly domed - and used it to smoosh the fluid around. If there was less bleed, this method would probably have allowed me to get it outside the visible region, since it provides a lot more control than rubbing the screen with your thumb, which obviously isn't transparent...

It seems I've lost too much fluid out of this screen. I tried to google up a source for it, but only found a forum post by some guy saying it's impossible to get. So then I tried pillaging some from a stack of old phones... There is not much fluid in an LCD. You might be able to get half a drop from a 5" screen, but I'm not sure how... It's very thin stuff, and my attempts to pick it up with a blade were getting a pretty low return.

The idea was to put a bead of it along the edge of my screen and try to work some of the bubble out, and when I release the pressure, rather than air coming back in, some of the fluid would be sucked in. Maybe that happened to a small degree, but it was hard to say; I ran out of screens. I think the best way to harvest the fluid might be to get a tablet screen and dremel off a corner, and use a rolling pin... Not sure what the best way of getting it into my screen is, though.

Oh, and I realised a bit late that the fluid was probably nasty stuff; should've been wearing gloves from the start.

I'm impressed by the effort you've put in, and I wouldn't worry about the fluid; between painting lead miniatures (old-school GWS with no plastic), asbestos mats in school and the mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometer I used to work with, I'm surprised I'm still around.

In other news, I got myself a Sensor Watch, tore my hair out for a while after I installed the PCB in what I mistakenly thought was a genuine A158, got a refund and a rude awakening as to the price of genuine 'cheap' Casios these days, paid $30 for an F91, and finally had a play with it.

Realised the button setup in this and every other digital watch I've ever been inside is absolute rubbish, after noticing how useless the tally mode was because you have to look at the screen to confirm a successful button press... Sat on that feeling for a couple of days, until my F91 light spreader turned up.

I was all set to install it, when I thought to myself, you know what this thing needs - clicky blister buttons. I'll get that happening while I have it apart. So I spent a week looking through the optivisor futzing around with superglue and bicarb and the dremel, trying to get the packaging right… Didn't even get around to trying the light spreader, but I thought I finally had it all happening just so after half a dozen attempts.

But when I pressed the right button, sometimes it would go blank and restart… I had a squiz through the loupe, and the wire I had going from the back of the right button to where it touches the clip holding everything together was really close to the end of a component, and was shorting out sometimes. Fixed that, but then then the watch was dead 😩

Dammit! Ordered another one. In the meantime I installed the light spreader in the counterfeit module and popped that in the F91 case. The light spreader is bloody wonderful; I wish I could get one for my DB-380. Looking forward to seeing how rad it makes the Sensor Watch's deeper green & red LED.

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Anyone want this w800h 1aves for £12 posted? Purchased new from Casio by myself and any worn a few times. No strap and has a light scratch.

https://www.casio.co.uk/w-800h-1aves

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For future reference, I think potentially best attacked with a very small syringe and sharp. Both for the sucking it up and the putting back in. Potentially don’t even need to draw it up, might just capillary itself in the sharp.

Pro tip, next time you’re in a public loo, they have free boxes of them bolted to the wall.

£10 posted on the above w800h^^

Interested, will PM

Swatch brand loyalty, watching time in slow motion in A&E

I started with a timex the a sekonda, then 40 years of swatches

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Htfu

Htfu

Will do

Sorry

Spent ages grafting the blister buttons onto the Sensor Watch PCB #2, finally got it happening after multiple attempts, but not happy with the result; the light one doesn't click and sometimes double-taps, and the others don't always work when they click...

So I realised I'd probably get a better result by actually ordering something to suit, rather than scrounging bits out of old phones... Did so, I'll have yet another crack at it in a bit

I just had a fun time listing all of my watches, and have decided to create a bit of space; not sure of their value, so I don't know if online auction is a good idea? I'm open to input, as long as I'm doing the right thing with regards to this site's rules.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17309990/

@jv got 0 love cause he posted in the wrong thread.

Replaced the buttons

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Ah! This watch thread is a little more my cup of tea coffee (edited for continuity).

The dog and I are just sitting for 5 mins with a cup of coffee, after sanding a floor.

Here’s my trusty solar powered citizen, that I wear most days. Pretty rugged watch (good enough for Ray Mears) and even second hand, very much at the upper end of what I would spend on a watch.

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I've worn mine every day for 4-5 years now, nothing else gets a look in!