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Job Lot of 1970s & 1980s DIGITAL WATCHES – Can I FIX
Job Lot of 1970s & 1980s DIGITAL WATCHES – Can I FIX THEM?
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“My Mate VINCE”
Here we have a job lot of digital watches that I purchased from eBay a few years ago. A couple look like they are from the 1970s …
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Unbelievably the very same book came in to my PO Box as a gift about a week after this video was released to my Patreons, so a big thank you to the kind viewer and great minds think alike and all that😂 I now own 2 hard copies, but I know a home that will like the 2nd copy so it won't go to waste. I'm just pinning this comment purely because it may confuse the person who bought the book when I said in the video that I bought a copy!
Wrist cheese yucky
Boots and Woolworths used to have a whole section of these on sale. They were all the rage back then.
I remember having a red LED watch as a teenager in the '70s that my dad had brought back from overseas. Coolest thing ever. Then one day I looked at it and the red lens had come out exposing the the little HP bubble display. I was gutted, and I took it to the local watchmaker in our village. He looked at me like I'd just landed from Mars. Seeing those little bubble LEDs did kickstart my interest in electronics, and I've had a 40 odd year career from it ever since.
That second watch is Shagadelic!
Thanks
I normally don’t get religious but when you repaired the last watch which is the same one my dad gave me around my 16 th birthday I got so emotional. It brought back so many memories that were so wonderful. I still feel it on my arm. Yes I have the top of the range apple one now but I have such fond memories of the original.. Thank you. Love your stuff. Had to do another thanks😊
but I did manage to fix some but it was not easy
I tried fixing these back in the days with very little to help me
I was very surprised and disappointed about the suggestion to list both of the faulty watches back on eBay as untested. This is a bad practice that spoils eBay by using false descriptions, I've been caught out a few times recently and would suggest instead being honest like Joeydoestech and listing all the faults you find
I have an led watch waiting for this treatment. It looks like it has overheated and has lots of corrosion. I will be trying white vinegar in my cheap not really ultrasonic bath. It just has a little vibrating motor like in a phone or games controller. It has one segment that works so fingers crossed.
if you soaked them in vinegar it might dissolve the corrosion
Love watch repairs the fiddly little one i love I watch another YouTuber that takes apart watches cleans and put them back together and sometimes they just need a clean
40 years is also a multiplier of 4, so 1984 was also a leap year.
At least they never had earwax in them.
You filmed the casio watch on my birthday
That glow through the corrosion – set me off on a fantasy about a sci fi movie in which a long distance cargo spaceship driver is steering through debris and sees a faint red glow coming from a passing rusted hulk. So he decides it’s worth a spacewalk either to rescue a survivor or find some treasure. But when he gets inside all there is, is huge blooms of acidic flora that’s been eating away at the electronics for centuries. But then he treads on a loose bond wire and the led patches briefly luminesce to spell out ‘help me’
To be continued…
Back in the late 70s, I had a red LED watch in a chrome and steel enclosure. Was very cool.
I love digital watches. When I was little I would use the old school light as a flashlight when I had to pee at 2 am.
back in the 1970's watches for men and women were high in fashion now they now smart watches for all ages still classy and flashy too we have come long way 1970-2024 is going on on of our daily life style- keep up the good work-DLH
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I wonder if an ultrasonic cleaner would get rid of most of the corrosion on the first two watches – and make it clearer to see whats damaged and not
that's why I stopped using ebay long time ago, its just scammers saying they have perfect condition watch and inside its a 'crust central' with some damage that cannot be undone I gave up on restoring watches at that point (ebay customer service was pretty bad and protected scammer that is still selling stuff there to this day)
save it too 2080 and it will showing correct year again until 2119 ofc 😀
Whel if anything, you can recuperate the gold wires and the gold foil on the contacts and maybe make 1g and recuperate your spending and a little more
Those red LED display watches sure bring back memories.
Isn't it funny that now we have gone back to complety black faced watches.
0:55 can date be 4 of January 1998 or 1 of April 1998 or week 41 of 1998? 😀
You can't use that watch again until 2080!
I would have loved to go back to 1980, at the beginning of 2020
Vince you are correct a figure 8 would be correct, and the reason why you counted 9 connection points on the first watch is correct, as you would have 8 positive or negative wires, but you would also need 1 wire that is the opposite polarity. you were just thinking of the 8 wires to power the 8 lines. either that or if it is like you say each number is illuminated, then it would be the power for the light as the 9th wire.
8:25 I would have soaked it in cleaning vinegar first!
My dad had a Casio watch like that in the early 1980's 🙂
How is GOLD corroded? I thought the whole point behind gold is that it doesn't corrode.
While these are clearly way too far gone to save, the best thing to deal with alkaline battery leakage is a little mild acid like vinegar or (Mrs. Factory prefers, because it smells less) citric acid. Better to give that a chance to neutralize it away before poking at it with tweezers.
Love the videos Vince. I would have put the first watch in a bath of white vinegar left to soak for a short while. Not scraped or brushed.
I think this was probably a predictable result for those LED watches. being as old are they are
I had a Casio in the early eighties that looked like that one.
Used it for years, no problems.
I don't know why but I sense a follow up video for those led watches.
Quartz! Yes Vince. Quartz watches are great.
two words..
Wire glue
Save those gold wires…
Vince, Some seven segment displays also included a decimal point that usually was not used. That would mean that there would be one contact for each of the seven segments, plus one for the decimal point, and one for the all important return line. That would total nine, or eight if there was no decimal on the number chip.
Great video Vince. Hoping you’ll try your luck with some more LED watches; the displays are literally brilliant (well at least compared to an unlit LCD). That book is excellent. Having very much enjoyed my own copy have ended up buying a few copies as gifts for friends with similar interests.
It appears that 370 is the correct battery for the movement in the Casio A-880. 370 and 371 are equivalent.
Casio predicted 2020
That style of metal bracelet on the first LED is certainly still in good shape and is somewhat collectable .
Hi Vince, Spite fact this filmed in April 2024, would be Awesome to Frame electronic pieces, showing delicate connections. Had idea for other items, but issue is Finding Magnifying glass or How, to bring view closer. let us know IF ever find such glass or way.