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    Quote Originally Posted by PickleB View Post
    Have any of you family men out there tried filling a watch with Johnson's Baby Oil? It's a "low viscosity solution of light mineral oil", but the physical state is still given as "oil" (link). Does that mean there's a solvent involved? Otherwise, it's clear and not very viscous.

    I know that I've read an article about the selection of the more usual synthetic oil that's recommended for this task, but cannot recall where it was. I'd be interested in a discussion of the relative merits of vegetable, mineral and synthetic oils for filling watches.

    Now waiting for the frivolous replies to my suggestion...
    As I wrote in the original thread the scent of EVOO is more pleasing and less overwhelming than vanilla. Baby oil is even more fragrant and will be as big a babe magnet as a golden bracelet brand-ex/Casio and with an even more tricky association.
    So pick your choice about the target group for your olfactory signalling; virgin, gold digging, vanilla loving or ovulating mermaids.

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    oh! did you write a thread about this too?

    you never mentioned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dixie View Post
    That is cool! Do you have any pictures of the illuminator light working?
    Sure not the best in daylight.


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    Back to the OP - Great post Dixie and the fact it is bright luminescent green made me chuckle.

    None of the tactical black fake carbon for the 'little watch that could'; instead it goes down 984m wearing neon green and stays there for three days!

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    Bloody brilliant post. Thanks very much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orgone Accumulator View Post
    Sure not the best in daylight.
    Great to see that it still works Orgone! I'll have to get cracking on the GWM5610 when I decide on what oil to use...

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    Quote Originally Posted by AM94 View Post
    Back to the OP - Great post Dixie and the fact it is bright luminescent green made me chuckle.

    None of the tactical black fake carbon for the 'little watch that could'; instead it goes down 984m wearing neon green and stays there for three days!
    Haha yeah, all part of its plucky charm!

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    Quote Originally Posted by poppy View Post
    oh! did you write a thread about this too?

    you never mentioned.
    That brought a chuckle. It seems every thread he enters has to be brought back to him in some way or another. Quite the thunder-stealer...

    For the OP, thanks for that. It was rather entertaining, and as someone else said could only have been improved by sending a control watch down to show the difference.

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    Wow i really enjoyed reading that! Thanks for sharing this amazing experiment :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by s30n9g View Post
    Err, liquids don't expand or contract; that's how this whole works.
    Err, actually they do, that is exactly why Sinn use a mobile piston back on the EZM2 and UX, 'Cilla kept mentioning the flexibility of the case, and others have considered the installation of closed cell foam or plastic bubbles, to deliberately introduce a small compressible void into the case and allow for the expansion and contraction of the fluid (with temperature, not necessarily under pressure).

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    Quote Originally Posted by s30n9g View Post
    Err, liquids don't expand or contract; that's how this whole works.
    Not a lot, but I'm afraid they do, see link.

    I see this is the second reply to your post and I expect you'll also get another.
    Last edited by PickleB; 24th April 2015 at 09:31. Reason: spelling correction

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    Yes, that's how traditional thermometers work :)

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    I love your job

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    Excellent post OP. Thanks for sharing your work with us.

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    Excellent post OP!

    Quote Originally Posted by s30n9g View Post
    Interesting.
    Is it the fluid or the gas within fluid that contracts and expands?
    Could you please let it go?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion

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