WRUW Wednesday 21th of June

[camrok]

Hi my names Cameron and I like kinetic watches….
Just had this lit arrive from the UK. The one with the metal bracelet is a luminous dial.

[tempelkim]

Day three of the 'Select one of five vintage Seiko (dress-)watches (1965 - 1975)' price is another LM.

[inboost]

Whilst trying to get the clutch hydraulics sorted on my Wife's Mazda RX-8 6spd



Why did I think the expensive but easy to get to part would fix the problem?

[suntzu]

[scubarob99]

Good morning gents. 7548/6309

Rob

[tempelkim]

Jun 21, 2023 4:10:31 GMT -8 inboost said:

Why did I think the expensive but easy to get to part would fix the problem?

...though you knew that it's most likely the expensive but very hard to get to part.

[inboost]

Believe it or not, the slave cylinder is 1/3 the price of the master which got replaced late last night. I get to make another 2hr roud trip drive tomorrow to get the slave. I'm also picking up the flexible hose in the hydraulic circuit. I'll actually put my money on it being the problem. 

[victor]

Jun 21, 2023 4:35:21 GMT -8 inboost said:

Believe it or not, the slave cylinder is 1/3 the price of the master which got replaced late last night. I get to make another 2hr roud trip drive tomorrow to get the slave. I'm also picking up the flexible hose in the hydraulic circuit. I'll actually put my money on it being the problem. 

No idea whether the system is the same as in early Miatas (or what problem you're dealing with exactly) but the hose was the issue in my daughter's car a few months ago.  The tell was whether you could shift into gear when the car was turned off, but not when it was running.  The wall of the hose develops a weakness and bulges out under pressure.  Cheap and easy fix.

[victor]

The Monster arrived yesterday, just in time for a week of rotten weather.  Having a 2nd gen Orange Monster, I knew I liked the basic design of this model, but had no idea how much I'd like the 1st gen dial.  I'm really pleased with this one!

This past weekend I had everything planned.  Sunday was going to be spent washing and waxing my car, then driving it back country roads before putting it away before the weather arrived.  Instead I spent the day helping my wife shut down the office downtown as everyone is remote working now.  Some SOB stole the really nice Keurig before we arrived - dammit I wanted to "liberate" it!  So no coffee machine and my car is filthy and I never got a chance to drive it.

[babyivan]

[cd_god]

Today's Seiko bible verse of the day: "I am with you, saith the Lord." Haggai 1:13

[Fergus]

[59yukon01]

[dapellegrini]

[victor]

Jun 21, 2023 8:24:26 GMT -8 dapellegrini said:

Wow dapellegrini - is that watch for timing some kind of crazy octoathalon? Swim to the football field, then try to make it the bball court before you're tackled, dribble to the ice-hockey rink, skate to the volleyball court, spike it to the field hockey place, play some rugby and then a little soccer? All that in 45 minutes? Insane!

[dapellegrini]

victor - LOL, right?  I am still trying to figure it out.  It's an 8M32-8030, haven't yet located an instruction manual, but have learned a bit by trial and error.

With the crown pushed in, turning it selects one of 6 modes:

1 - TIME - (Clock) what you would expect - it is two handed time keeping.  Pull the crown and then use the buttons to set the time (no seconds hand)

2 - CHRO - (Chronograph) - hour hand becomes minutes hand, minutes hand is your seconds, and it ticks forward.  It is a rattrapant, so if you stop and then restart the seconds, it jumps back to where it would be if you never stopped it

3 - >0< - (Reset) In this mode you can even out the hands at zero - I think this is just for resetting after a battery change

4 - TM. CHRO. - (Timer + Chrono) - This one is interesting.  It is first a timer - set a count down and start it running.  It runs backwards until the timer hits zero.  At this point you get an alarm and it reverses direction to become a standard chronograph - like #2 CHRO.

5 - RE. TM. - (Repeating Timer) works like the TIMER below - except when it hits zero, it alarms, then resets and does it again, and again, until you stop it.

6 - TIMER - (Count Down Timer) pull the crown to set the hour hand (used for minutes here) to a marker.  Start the chrono and the seconds hand ticks backwards - once, and the minutes hand reduces...  when it hits Zero you get an alarm

[longbike]

Aloha
This today again really liking it too.... in the A.M.
Louis

[cd_god]

"Welcome to _________" sign on the side of the freeway.

But it is not welcome to a happy place so that other watch won't be shown anytime soon

[dapellegrini]

Jun 21, 2023 17:57:47 GMT -8 cd_god said:

"Welcome to _________" sign on the side of the freeway.

But it is not welcome to a happy place so that other watch won't be shown anytime soon

Sweet - it has arrived!

[69ChevelleSS]

Jun 21, 2023 17:57:47 GMT -8 cd_god said:

"Welcome to _________" sign on the side of the freeway.

But it is not welcome to a happy place so that other watch won't be shown anytime soon

Good luck in 'da hood WS World Traveler.  If you survived Harlem, you should be OK in in