johnro6659
Tyme Machine
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I wonder how many guys here do their own battery swaps? I would like to hit the guy who designed the Ronda 5050 movement with a lead pipe. I swear the guy was a sadist! I just got done doing some work on some waches 4 of my own, 3 Filsons and a Brera Orologi and several for a friend all battery replacements. The dam 5050 b battery hold down or what I call the screw catapult SUCKS! If you not very, very careful it loves to send the hold down screw into oblivion. I thought I had enough experience doing batteries on them but every now and then one gets the better of me. I do all my watch work on a nice piece of felt lined board. The catapult sends the screws pretty far they never land on the desk 99% of the time. I have a long piece on magnet on a stick I hover over the floor and sometimes I luck out and find the screw but most they are gone. I ended up buying a bunch from Esslinger $20.00! So far I have only had to use a few. Tonight two went flying luckily one hit me in the face and fell onto the felt the other landed on my shirt. I saw both fly usually the go so fast you do not see them. Trying to think of a way to keep them close if they do get away from me but so far I haven't come up with a good solution.
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