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Cautionary tale of a stuck Watch band
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1920021" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Rod, it was the top fitting. I don't know if that is significant or not, though. Not sure why that end would be more prone to it than the other.</p><p></p><p>Here is a picture of the two ends as they exist right now:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]37066[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The left one was the stuck one, the right one came out easily. You can see that on the right there is an oval silver plunger in the center of the mount that is extended by the tapered button on the other side of the slide. The left one is where the plunger was broken and is now gone. You can just see the bottom of the tapered button on the left side. The band is holding on now, probably because the tapered button on the other side is kind of wedged into the watch. The slots on the watch itself are very clean now as I have done the same thing, Rod, exercised it until the crud stopped showing up, then blasting it with some canned air. The plunger on the right side is still covered with some crud on the sides of the plunger, but it works when the buttons are pushed, so I'm going to ignore it until the replacement band arrives Saturday.</p><p></p><p>Won't say this was fun, but it was educational. All told, I worked on it about 8-10 hours to get it out, cleaned up and ready for the new band to arrive. And to avoid that going forward, the band and watch will get cleaned weekly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1920021, member: 396914"] Rod, it was the top fitting. I don't know if that is significant or not, though. Not sure why that end would be more prone to it than the other. Here is a picture of the two ends as they exist right now: [ATTACH type="full"]37066[/ATTACH] The left one was the stuck one, the right one came out easily. You can see that on the right there is an oval silver plunger in the center of the mount that is extended by the tapered button on the other side of the slide. The left one is where the plunger was broken and is now gone. You can just see the bottom of the tapered button on the left side. The band is holding on now, probably because the tapered button on the other side is kind of wedged into the watch. The slots on the watch itself are very clean now as I have done the same thing, Rod, exercised it until the crud stopped showing up, then blasting it with some canned air. The plunger on the right side is still covered with some crud on the sides of the plunger, but it works when the buttons are pushed, so I'm going to ignore it until the replacement band arrives Saturday. Won't say this was fun, but it was educational. All told, I worked on it about 8-10 hours to get it out, cleaned up and ready for the new band to arrive. And to avoid that going forward, the band and watch will get cleaned weekly. [/QUOTE]
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