I have a Casio Skymaster it is an "eco-drive" it has a tiny solar panel that charges a capacitor which runs the watch.Did a bit of playing around with watches this evening.
Got one out that I bought in a job lot in an auction a couple of years back.
Unusually it is batt powered, normally I don't do anything with them, preferring mechanical, oreferably autos, but this one has a 10 year batt and is running fine.
The nice bloke at Casio gave me a link to a PDF manual.
So now it tells the time both analogue and digital, the latter around the world. Timer, 24 hour stopwatch, alarms all working. I could even load it up with phone numbers if I could be assed.
Never been worn, obvs the lot came from a shop closing down., so many are like that.
Quite chuffed really although it isn't my style.
The lot cost me £20 plus commission.
This watch new, £50.
Result!
(Yes, I was surprised at the price too! Feel a bit @kevstar -ish! 'cept it wasn't free!)
Sleep tight folks!
If it sees insufficient light then it freezes all watch-hand movement but keeps the time going in memory. As soon as it gets sufficient light it gallops along setting the hands to the correct time. I have had it for 23 years now and it is still going.
My eyesight is too poor to read much of the digital stuff on the display but the analog hands are good enough.
Just a touch of frost 'ere but we have been promised more overnight tonight.Morning All.
Another frosty start today.
Off for the paper in mo.
See you later, have a good day.
Yes it was and a lot of people still called in Frys. My parents moved there in 1973 as we lived in Bath and they both worked in Bristol so they got fed up of two traffic jams every day in both directions.
Parents divorde and dad libved there until death. Bro lived with him there a bit, as did I.
He did 3 shifts and earned good money though boredom was a big factor.
Every now and then he'd tell us he'd been moved section and didn't know why, the next week he'd tell ujs there had been a load of redundancies or his old section had been closed.
It took him a while to cotton on that it was because he was a "worker not a shirker".
But we always had free or nearly free choclit stuff kicking around!
What did you call them "Fry's chocolate (whatevers)"???!!!
Strangely the headmaster of the school I taught in came from Keynsham. He was mad on trains particularly The GWR. So the kids uniform was cream, brown and "camel" and although they dropped the "camel" soon after he retired, the uniform stayed like that for 325 years odd until about 5 before I retired. They hated it and so did their parents as they couldn't buy trousers, sweaters, shirts or skirts from ornery shops. And the xpensive brown ones were rubbish quality. For a long time even the sixth form had to wear brown clothes, who the flip would wear that? If you could find it?
So they got called "little chocolate soldiers".
Sorry for going off piste!!
But coincidence is a funny thing!
Edit, forgive the typos, you'll se why next post!
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Good on you. 23 years is fab for a battery.
I have two solar powered watches, they both worked very well for a time but eventually the batts gave up the ghost and, like so many peeps I just cannot get around to getting new ones!
They also got their time from a times signal so I could change it when I went to France by pushing buttons. The kids though it was funny that it had hands but no crown to adjust them with!
Place I'm working, the bloke who put it up put the date on the wall.. 1963Sun out here an all
Just stripped the3040year old paper off the bathroom walls
Ere Stan @Stanleysteamer , I've picked up a Graves English lever silver pocket watch. Is in good nick but don't go.
Wotcha fink, is it worth looking at repairing?
Wotcha fink, is it worth looking at repairing?
So...
Went to hospickle this morn to see the musculoskeletal doc, she gave me injections in the base of my left thumb and the first knuckles of both indexes. Hence the typos. She also told me not to drive or do any DIY, or play the guitar, which I told her, if I could do that, I wouldn't be here!
So W had to drive and will have to tomoz on theatre trip to Barff and Fridi on trip to Wandswuff to get our visas.
She wasn't happy, told me not to talk to her about her driving and set off, nearly made wronf turn, flew over speed bumps, hammered the brakes not letting go till the lurch had finished and took off in such a way that the car shuddred.
Couldn't believe it! I drive so gently all the time and yet she bawls me out if I ever make it shudder if I have to take off a bit quick!
So we went to Ringwood to pick up her purchases from the auction. She got out the car, walked away and as she did so locked the car on the fob. with me in it!
I discovered that the only way out of the car would be to break a window.
And of course if I moved the alarm went off.
So I sat there reading, casually setting the alarm off every so often.
She appeared a bit puzzled when she pulled the door handle and couldn't get it open.
Told her what had happened in no uncertain terms.
And after we got back told her that I now knew why he suspension on her car banged all the time. And wondered why I bothered to drive it as if it had eggs in it all the time!
Anyways, I may be getting an op on the worst finger, or fingers, sometime, which is good news. I'd love to be able to play the guitar again!
Went to hospickle this morn to see the musculoskeletal doc, she gave me injections in the base of my left thumb and the first knuckles of both indexes. Hence the typos. She also told me not to drive or do any DIY, or play the guitar, which I told her, if I could do that, I wouldn't be here!
So W had to drive and will have to tomoz on theatre trip to Barff and Fridi on trip to Wandswuff to get our visas.
She wasn't happy, told me not to talk to her about her driving and set off, nearly made wronf turn, flew over speed bumps, hammered the brakes not letting go till the lurch had finished and took off in such a way that the car shuddred.
Couldn't believe it! I drive so gently all the time and yet she bawls me out if I ever make it shudder if I have to take off a bit quick!
So we went to Ringwood to pick up her purchases from the auction. She got out the car, walked away and as she did so locked the car on the fob. with me in it!
I discovered that the only way out of the car would be to break a window.
And of course if I moved the alarm went off.
So I sat there reading, casually setting the alarm off every so often.
She appeared a bit puzzled when she pulled the door handle and couldn't get it open.
Told her what had happened in no uncertain terms.
And after we got back told her that I now knew why he suspension on her car banged all the time. And wondered why I bothered to drive it as if it had eggs in it all the time!
Anyways, I may be getting an op on the worst finger, or fingers, sometime, which is good news. I'd love to be able to play the guitar again!
@Stanleysteamer
I know that driving feeling and have learnt to STFU
Hope fingers and fumbs feel better soon.
J
I know that driving feeling and have learnt to STFU
Hope fingers and fumbs feel better soon.
J
They can go for good money. But, as usual they need to be pristine, to fetch really big bucks, maybe up to £300.
But you need to find out what repair costs are and repairers are few and far between. There is a bunch who have formed some sort of guild to protect the art, so they won't be cheap.
You could get a fair bit of dosh even un-fixed. Chances are it just needs a good clean and a maintain. Does it wind or is that stuck?
This is the bunch, and I think they will tell you the nearest certified peeps to you.
I once had a Rotary Chronograph that needed a new crystal. I gave it to a kid in my tutor group who worked in a Branch of Samuels to get it fixed for me. The repairer was supposed tp be rolex trained but he couldn't get the crown and stem out to rempve the movement to replace the crystal, so he just yanked it and told her "That is what you have to do", despite there being the word "push" next to a little hole in the middle of the back of the movement.
so he "repaired" it but a little while later the stem and crown fell out!
So I ordered anew movement off the internet and found out that to get the stem out all you had to do was push in the lickle hole with a tiny screwdriver, while at the same time pushing on the crown and stem, then it popped out.
D***head!
I now have a box of crystals so I can do many other watches should I need to. And the tools and other spares. Just wish I had the time to really learn a lot more about it. I have even bought really cheap, new, Chinese fob watches to take apart to see how to do it and put them back together again.
Will I ever retire and be able to do this and other stuff.
Flip DIY!!!
Yerp I just read my book and let her got on with it. didn't say anything until safely walking to the house!@Stanleysteamer
I know that driving feeling and have learnt to STFU
Hope fingers and fumbs feel better soon.
J
The funny thing is she has real back problems so I drive round potholes and over sleeping policemen REALLY slowly to not hurt it!
Guess she has the sterring wheel to hang on to.
Wish I did!!
Stone56
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Could be the reason for the bad back wouldn't help it
Stone56
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Get that seen to dont take long for it to turn nastyGot infection in my thumb, cut it last week now its very sore, has a small green patch and redness where it's swelled
Tried to do a bit outside but it's -3 so going to leave it for now
