WRUW TUE 30 '24

[Fergus]

[trilo]

Since latter part of the 2023 it has been hard to get proper marmelade in here (I think partly it's due to brexit). We used to be able to get Mackay's for example, but it has disappeared now.

I decided to make some myself. 

It's shocking to see the actual amount of sugar that goes in there. Percentages don't tell anything even if you understand them 

[leffemonster]

[russtmurray]

[inboost]

Fergus the Speedy look s amazing!

trilo yeah, I cringe when some of the things I like to eat are built in front of me. I had no idea what was goes in to making Creme Brulee, Tiramisu, Holindase sauce, etc. Good on you for making your own marmalade, just be sure not to put your boot soles in with it

Today for me is another one of those parts watches that can't be used as a parts watch . I bought this (for too mcuh money) in Japan figuring it was a disaterpiece and I could use it to fix up the Yacht Timer I bought from tritto. Upon arrival it was dead, and a new cell seemed to do nothing until I managed the 4-button all-clear (very difficult with stuck pushers, had to manipulate them from the inside!) and it popped to life. I thought the LCD was bad but now it seems OK. The bezel for selecting the modes is frozen so I have no idea if the rest of the functions are OK but it's a time-telling date keeping watch for the moment and that's far better than I expected.

Loaded on a human marmalade encrusted band tritto sourced for the other yacht timer, a Seiko Silverwave A827-6000

[raz]

[cd_god]

Extracted this one yesterday at lunch.

I've made some exhaust systems over the years from paging through the Walker exhaust catalog and measuring ID / OD and stacking 2 adapters in a row and cutting up universal over the axle tailpipes using the bends and measuring bolt spacing on flanges but when you buy a STAINLESS STEEL exact fit exhaust system you expect it to fukcing WORK and LAST.

[victor]

0853-8035 tatami

[trilo]

Jan 30, 2024 6:01:50 GMT -8 victor said:

0853-8035 tatami

Oh wow, that is beautiful!

[59yukon01]

[tommie]

[dapellegrini]

This is the early, World Time at 6-o'clock, Moscow-Dharan bezel.  June 1970.  New OEM crystal, and will do gaskets shortly.  Case with an old polish. If I accidentally lick this dial, or use it as a scratch and sniff, at least it is not hot. 

[victor]

Jan 30, 2024 16:24:08 GMT -8 dapellegrini said:

This is the early, World Time at 6-o'clock, Moscow-Dharan bezel.  June 1970.  New OEM crystal, and will do gaskets shortly.  Case with an old polish. If I accidentally like this dial, or use it as a scratch and sniff, at least it is not hot. 

I don't think I've seen that one before.  I like it.

[inboost]

Jan 30, 2024 16:24:08 GMT -8 dapellegrini said:

This is the early, World Time at 6-o'clock, Moscow-Dharan bezel.  June 1970.  New OEM crystal, and will do gaskets shortly.  Case with an old polish. If I accidentally lick this dial, or use it as a scratch and sniff, at least it is not hot. 

Do you have a Geiger counter inbound dapellegrini ? Then you'll know for sure. Speaking of which I only live 12 miles (10km) upriver of a nuclear power plant. Does that mean my vintage watches will glow brighter than yours or does it cancel out?

[dapellegrini]

GC in hand.  Shocked to discover that I have worked on at least a couple watches with Radium lume unwittingly.  Current list of known radium lumed Seikos and Citizens is a work in progress, but includes a couple World timers from 1967, many (but not all) Silverwaves, the 21j Bellmatics, 62MAS and 6105-8009 and 6117-8009's with brownish lume, the Citizen Uni Diver, one of the Citizen Alarms, etc.  Lots of stuff into 1968, which goes against what you tend to find written online about Japanese watches

I don't know how to make odds or ends out of the readings, and many people carry on about how the radiation from these is not that dangerous despite the GC readings. Most that light up are around 3-4 µSv/h, one silverwave was over 14 µSv/h - and the machine was telling me to run for the hills.

EDIT: for reference, background seems to be .10 to .14 µSv/h otherwise

[victor]

Jan 30, 2024 19:44:53 GMT -8 dapellegrini said:

[snip].  Lots of stuff into 1968, which goes against what you tend to find written online about Japanese watches

I don't know how to make odds or ends out of the readings, and many people carry on about how the radiation from these is not that dangerous despite the GC readings. Most that light up are around 3-4 µSv/h, one silverwave was over 14 µSv/h - and the machine was telling me to run for the hills.

EDIT: for reference, background seems to be .10 to .14 µSv/h otherwise

That's really useful info - and yeah, from what I'd read, radium used in the 1960s was supposedly a fraction of the amount used in prior decades and it was supposedly discontinued entirely by the watch industry by 1968. 

Makes me wonder if the ones you found it on were older dials that were used later - did you check the dial dates?  Or were Seiko and Citizen just using up the last of their old stockpiled lume before moving to the safer stuff?