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 Post subject: B-1 Cleaning
PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:03 am 
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Just a quickie!

How the hell do you clean behind the "fan blades" on the caseback?

I have an "untrasonic" type jewellery cleaner - would it be OK to use this?

I saw doctor deisels was immaculate whenever he's posted pics.

Any suggestions or tips appreciated - cheers.

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 Post subject: Re: B-1 Cleaning
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Breitling Bloke wrote:

I have an "untrasonic" type jewellery cleaner - would it be OK to use this?



Probably not a good idea.

If you use an ultrasonic bath on a mechanical watch while the movement is in it you will likely shake all of the jewels out of their settings, and I can't believe that it's good for a Quartz either - after all, that crystal is still vibrating.
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Yeah it's only ultrasonic (ish) - really just an immitation kind of vibrating jewellery cleaner not an industrial cleaner. It doesn't vibrate at any sort of high frequency - runs on 2 AA batteries!

I hadn't considered internal damage tho' - was more worried about the B-1 leaking as it's only water resistant to 50M.

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Toothbrush?

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aye, toothbrush and soapy water here, You can be quite vigorous around the blades, rinse then dry....shiny shiny afterwards :lol:

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Cheers - will persevere.

Tried it half heartedly but without the soapy water & hoped there would be some magic method.

Just lazy I guess - thanks chaps.

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si, did you find a deployant yet??

if not, my purchase of leftys utc means mine is now spare (along with two black straps)

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Hi John

No, not yet. I'm watching a couple on eBay (Germany) but a few days to go yet. They seem to go from £65 to £70 quid which is reasonable compared to some of the Buy Now prices £100 plus.

If you're offering please PM me and we can agree a price. I'm itching to try that blue shark on mine.

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