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Honest A Babin
 
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Default FA: traser watch - good for jewelry project because of tritium light generators

These are the greqat watches.
Mne does not work either but good quiaaty.\
Al

bill wrote:
I know some of you folks make really cool jewelry - I put a Traser
watch up for auction on e-bay - the watch doesn't work (of course you
could fix it, it has a standard movement), but another cool use would
be to disassemble it and collect the small glass vials that are filled
with tritum and lined with a phosphor - they glow pretty brightly (you
can read by the light from the watch if you are fully dark adapted) and
so they ought to be useful in a jewelry application of some kind -
there are 16 total tubes in the watch (one for each hour positoin, one
on each hand, and one more on the rotating dial).

here's the link if you are interested (well, actually, here's the link
whether you are interested or not)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5050894444

If someone from the group here does get it, I'd love to see pictures of
what you do (unless you just fix it and use it, in which case I already
know what it looks like)