Comments on: Repairing broken watch strap http://blog.chewearn.com/2009/07/07/repairing-broken-watch-strap/ The ramblings of a bochap guy Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:55:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chewearn http://blog.chewearn.com/2009/07/07/repairing-broken-watch-strap/comment-page-1/#comment-665 chewearn Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:00:33 +0000 http://blog.chewearn.com/?p=255#comment-665 Lol! Internet... you cracked me up. Didn't in a million years expect this page to hit number 1 on Google. :) Lol! Internet… you cracked me up. Didn’t in a million years expect this page to hit number 1 on Google. :)

]]> By: Amp http://blog.chewearn.com/2009/07/07/repairing-broken-watch-strap/comment-page-1/#comment-664 Amp Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:59:46 +0000 http://blog.chewearn.com/?p=255#comment-664 For the record, someone else looked this up... a few years later. Yours was a top google hit for "fix a plastic watch band broken". I'm totally using this. Thanks :) For the record, someone else looked this up… a few years later. Yours was a top google hit for “fix a plastic watch band broken”. I’m totally using this. Thanks :)

]]> By: chewearn http://blog.chewearn.com/2009/07/07/repairing-broken-watch-strap/comment-page-1/#comment-381 chewearn Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:03:18 +0000 http://blog.chewearn.com/?p=255#comment-381 Ha ha! I didn't expect anyone to read this post, let alone leave a comment. Great ingenuity on your fix, John! Actually, a few days after I fixed the strap, new breaks appeared. It's just too worn out. I still kept it though. Maybe someday, I might attach a chain and turned it into a pocket watch. :) Ha ha! I didn’t expect anyone to read this post, let alone leave a comment. Great ingenuity on your fix, John!

Actually, a few days after I fixed the strap, new breaks appeared. It’s just too worn out. I still kept it though. Maybe someday, I might attach a chain and turned it into a pocket watch. :)

]]> By: John Pugh http://blog.chewearn.com/2009/07/07/repairing-broken-watch-strap/comment-page-1/#comment-380 John Pugh Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:19:42 +0000 http://blog.chewearn.com/?p=255#comment-380 I too had a broken watch strap. The pins that connect the strap to the watch are encased in a plastic part that, over time, split & allowed the pin assembly to come out of the plastic. The pins stayed connected to the watch. I have a number of old ballpoint pens. They contain a brass ink reservoir . Cutting open a canned salmon tin, I was able to duplicate approximately, the angle of the original plastic part. Cutting 4 sections of brass tube & soldering them to the angular cut tin parts I was able to resurrect the watch. It ain't pretty, but it works. Sorry no pics, but you get the idea. I too had a broken watch strap. The pins that connect the strap to the watch are encased in a plastic part that, over time, split & allowed the pin assembly to come out of the plastic. The pins stayed connected to the watch.
I have a number of old ballpoint pens. They contain a brass ink reservoir . Cutting open a canned salmon tin, I was able to duplicate approximately, the angle of the original plastic part. Cutting 4 sections of brass tube & soldering them to the angular cut tin parts I was able to resurrect the watch. It ain’t pretty, but it works.
Sorry no pics, but you get the idea.

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