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Grewth:

--- Quote from: Seabeowner on August 25, 2025, 06:49:41 PM ---You can open up the ring and dismantle and re-crimp and if it's not great then most will be hidden by the rubber mount. Make a wooden jig to hold the inverted gauge.

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Unfortunately,  someone has already de-crimped the crimp ring and then re-crimped it at some point.
Hence the instrument face being refitted upside down.
Many years of skilful bodgery has led me to develop my own rebuild system for Japanese clocks.
I simply cut through the crimp band at right angles with a Dremel or something similar, then carefully prise the crimp band off.
The sealing rubber gasket rings are almost always perished, so I just chuck them away.
To reassemble I use epoxy adhesive inside the joint,  and hold the split crimp band in place with a large jubilee clip.
Works near perfect if you made the cut where you can hardly see it.
Of course in this case the crimp band has already been chewed up by persons unknown.
Not much point in trying to save it.

Seabeowner:
Yes I've did one in exactly that way as well, still using it. You'd never know unless I pointed it out.

Gromitdog:
Hi
There is a guy down in Kent that does rebuild these units and buys the crimp rings in batches.
Pete Horton you can PM him on here or email him Peterhortongauges@gmail.com.

Hope that helps
 
Nige

Laverda Dave:
Peter is the absolute dogs B's when it comes to gauges, 110% recommend 👍.

Athame57:

--- Quote from: exvalvesetdabbler on August 25, 2025, 06:02:08 PM ---That's for the Australian market.😀

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As a matter of interest Dave, how did you know they were for the Australian market?  ???

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