12 Aug 2012, 01:57
I bought this nice non working P2 date the other day because I had a beat up Hamilton with a working module.
I refinish the watch and procced to the module transplant, the time command button refused to work, the reed was good
I knew because switching the module 180 degrees to the date command got it working. I try to adjust the time reed with no luck,
I mean I move that thing everywhere and nothing, I knew reeds and magnets are match but finding a matching reed for this watch
and testing will be too much work, and replacing a bad button is no fun, what to do. after a week I came with this idea,what if I can assit the button with another tiny magnet, just to increase the magnetic field, I played with a small magnet from the outside of the wath so when pressing the button the time will display, it works. Now lets get the magnet inside the case, I filled the magnet to a rectangular shape so not to interfere with anything inside, I temporarilly intalled the magnet with double sided tape
untill I found the sweet spot, then I used epoxy to fix it there permanent, SUCCESS!!. It work like a dream now, you can even tweek the position of the magnet to your taste. Enjoy the pictures.[/size][/color][/size][/size]
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