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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,743
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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
$20 would about cover the glue. Even if you supplied parts we’d be making 10 cents an hour. We buy old watches by the pound on eBay and get some at garage sales. We sort them then and put the good ones in a vise one at a time to distort the case so we can pry the back off. Then pry out the works with the face hopefully intact. Super glue the hands to the face and pry the face off of the movement. The faces are attached to the movement with four tiny pins that have to be ground off with a Dremel. Then we find a spot where it will fit and use Mrs WD’s jewelry making tools to form it to fit the contour of the body. We atttach whole faces with RTV and small pieces with super glue. Every piece takes at least 15 minutes and sometimes half an hour.
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Very cool. Maybe some day I'll have tons of "extra" time and patience and an appropriate dog to attach them to.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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