Reply With Quotenope, last person would have been me.
Although i suspect a few more to join the queue
To discover that you can remove spring bars with dental floss?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkIRYEBtck
Im having a mare with some seiko fat bars so decided to turn to YouTube for advice as my Bergeon doesn't work on them. This looks remarkably safe and simple and can apparently be used on any shouldered bars.
Handy if youre hashy like me!
nope, last person would have been me.
Although i suspect a few more to join the queue
Nice
Unlikely to be useful if the watch is fitted on the bracelet though, floss would be pretty impossible to thread through.......
And putting them back in?
(By coincidence I spent an extremely fraught and sweaty half hour last night getting the bracelet safely back onto my datejust.)
Amazing what you can do with dental floss.
I used it to remove my wedding ring after several years and a lot of pies !!!
Conventional solutions failed miserably including soap, WD40 and babyoil.
maseman
Never knew this either, but never had any difficulty with the Bergeon, so not really an issue.
no I'M the last person on Earth!
It didn’t work for me. I used a lot of persistence with a Bergeon, but one side needed a no 11 scalpel blade. The floss just snapped iirc
Dave
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I posted the exact same thing here last year.
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...t=Dental+floss
Didn’t go down to well as you can see.
I have all the correct tools.
But gave it a try and it worked for me.
It doesn't look like the most reliable way to remove a spring-bar. I'd use a tool so that the spring-bar doesn't press against any of the lug metal and cause scratches. Seems pointless to be scratching the lugs every time you change a strap for the sake of a few quid on a spring-bar tool.
I got rid of one watch because the spring bars were such a pig to remove. Loved the watch itself but the spring bars were a source of great annoyance.
Yes I've had no joy with a springbar tool on seiko bars either.
I've now ordered floss.
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Back on with tool I hope. It's getting them out that's the swine!Originally Posted by petethegeek
When I bought my Seiko ‘new Arnie’ the crown was horribly gritty to operate - it felt like it might cross thread at any moment - so I used a piece of minty waxed floss to clean the threads. The crown was instantly transformed to buttery smoothness and remains so nearly 3 years later. Must have taken all of 10 seconds but the difference it’s made is amazing
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Fingernails and tooth pick, mano a mano.
Pah! I fart in the general direction of your "masculine" spring bars.
Picture not mine - nicked from Omega forums.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/fema...ng-bars.58066/
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
I must be missing something. Looks like you are just using brute force and I’m struggling to see how you don’t damage the spring bar and/or the lug???
Alternatively I find a daub of silicone grease or a spray of silicone oil does the job well.
It seems all too common that Seiko divers are not well oiled externally: E.g. Gritty crown, squeaky bracelet.
I think that the idea is to use the floss thread to grip on the shoulder of the spring bar to pull the pin part out of the hole, i.e. to exert force parallel with the spring bar. I think.
Last edited by markrlondon; 6th May 2022 at 17:45.
I’ve also used dental floss on a stiff bezel after the old washing up liquid and soft toothbrush treatment, coat the floss with silicone and run it round under the bezel, works a treat.
Celia nice find, every day is a school day in this watch business:)
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