04 May 2008, 00:01
Hi all,
First of all I must apologise for the long delay, I admire your patience. About a year ago, I tried to repair my Synchronar 2100 Mk IV. At one time or another, I probably promised an exhaustive, illustrated report about my undertakings. The repair project is dead, buried, and long since cold, but I haven't managed to get around writing that report.
...and I probably never will. The repair failed, the watch is dead, but I did take a few pictures, almost 100, that might be of interest to some of you. The following hard-to-read URL points to a file hosting site to which I have uploaded them: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c118d9352f09ab6e7069484bded33bcd805067f90fd2b1eb
Some things might be of interest, even though the actual repair failed.
The +90 pictures have been grouped into 10 tar archives, simply because I wanted to avoid the work of uploading the files individually. In order to make your downloading experience somewhat amusing and unusal, the pictures were sorted into the archives based on the last digit in their file names. This way, you will get a little of everything, whichever archive you choose to dowload first
Eh, one more thing, and I may regret telling you this. Before I let the milling tool dig into my Synchronar, I practised by milling a replacement Lexan shell. In order to do this, I created a simple 2D CAD drawing of the top shell. I should really upload that too, but now it's kinda late in the evening, so I am afraid you will have to apply a little more of the admirable patience of yours
First of all I must apologise for the long delay, I admire your patience. About a year ago, I tried to repair my Synchronar 2100 Mk IV. At one time or another, I probably promised an exhaustive, illustrated report about my undertakings. The repair project is dead, buried, and long since cold, but I haven't managed to get around writing that report.
...and I probably never will. The repair failed, the watch is dead, but I did take a few pictures, almost 100, that might be of interest to some of you. The following hard-to-read URL points to a file hosting site to which I have uploaded them: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c118d9352f09ab6e7069484bded33bcd805067f90fd2b1eb
Some things might be of interest, even though the actual repair failed.
- * I am very pleased with the lever of control I attained with the milling equipment I used. This does not exlude the possibility that better methods of opening a Synchronar exist.
* The hardening of the rubber filling in my watch was clearly disturbed by fluids leaking from the batteries. Near the negative pole of the batteries, the side where they have a seal, the rubber was not. That is, not rubbery. In those areas, the rubber was more like a sticky goo. This is kinda hard to illustrate with still photography, but on some of the pictures you can see how nicely the surrounding rubber compound has recorded the text on the positive side of the battery. The "goo" near the negative side was incapable of recording similar high quality impressions.
* Many pictures appear to be mindless repetitions, which they sometimes are. Many times, however, have I tried to vary the lighting, viewing angle, etc in order to provide more information for the viewer. Some things are simply very "simple" to see in real life, but hard to capture with a single photograph.
* The Proxxon milling and grinding tool is attached to the drilling rig with the help of a special converter plug. It is little more than an aluminium cylinder with a hole in the middle, but it is no standard accessory.
The +90 pictures have been grouped into 10 tar archives, simply because I wanted to avoid the work of uploading the files individually. In order to make your downloading experience somewhat amusing and unusal, the pictures were sorted into the archives based on the last digit in their file names. This way, you will get a little of everything, whichever archive you choose to dowload first
Eh, one more thing, and I may regret telling you this. Before I let the milling tool dig into my Synchronar, I practised by milling a replacement Lexan shell. In order to do this, I created a simple 2D CAD drawing of the top shell. I should really upload that too, but now it's kinda late in the evening, so I am afraid you will have to apply a little more of the admirable patience of yours
