Jump to content

Water in electronic LCD watch (Takara Transformer)

Crayg

By Crayg
in Watch Repairs Help & Advice

 Share

Recommended Posts

Crayg New Member

Crayg

Posted
Posted

Hello everyone,

I’m very new to taking apart/repairing watches but I came across a Takara Transformer watch that I thought was pretty fun. I hope spending time on a silly watch like this isn’t insulting to all of you pros! 

The watch doesn’t run, although with a new battery you could see portions of the clock time. It seems that there is water in between the two pieces of glass that the LCD is in. 

I’ve had it submerged in rice for about a week now and some of the water has come out, but it’s slowed almost to a halt. 

I don’t know how to get the glass apart without causing damage, and everything I’ve read online about getting glass apart involves either heat or ice cold water. Can I put this piece into the freezer? Or under hot water to try to get the two pieces apart? 

Any advice on what I should do would be amazing! I’ve added an imgur album below. 

https://m.imgur.com/a/vbF3RV6

1C025245-B537-417C-A9E7-636088CB99BA.jpeg

42BD0B02-8D33-46AC-ABEF-B38172CCB7F6.jpeg

99CB1373-9F24-4B9D-8D39-D159298C81AD.jpeg

2E302A9D-876A-41B0-904C-86E8DB5D203E.jpeg

E39BC978-BEA8-406A-8308-1888AD54B6A9.jpeg

44A7EB0A-E7F4-46B1-BBF0-9CC6AA7F7F29.jpeg

CEEB9B95-7003-42C9-B977-C1BA4BA1CDB8.jpeg

0F4E64F4-D39C-4103-9FBF-1ECFD46AB7ED.jpeg

watchweasol Distinguished Member

watchweasol

Posted
Posted

Hello and welcome to the forum.            Splitting the crystal display unit for the layman is probably a no no , best to source a new display .   You could try leaving it in the rice and putting it in the oven and warming it up as a last resort.  best of luck.

canthus Super WRT Addict

canthus

Posted
Posted

If you have a hot water system storage cylinder cupboard, leave it in that for a few days.  The heat is gentle and dry and may help drive out the water.  Could also leave it near the boiler which also get nice and warm.  If it dries out and works again, you could carefully put the thinnest layer possible of epoxy around the edges to seal it up.

Crayg New Member

Crayg

Posted
  • Author
Posted
On 5/27/2020 at 3:38 AM, watchweasol said:

Hello and welcome to the forum.            Splitting the crystal display unit for the layman is probably a no no , best to source a new display .   You could try leaving it in the rice and putting it in the oven and warming it up as a last resort.  best of luck.

Would I need to get the same LCD from another Takara watch? Or can I find LCDs like that in other watches and use that?

 

and if so, any ideas on how to go about finding one?

watchweasol Distinguished Member

watchweasol

Posted
Posted

I would assume  that the watch company would have standardised the display units across a range for production,  so Its take a chance picking up another Takara, If you can find one the same model spares or repair with a good screen ok,    but a word of warning on that score, the display/LCD is usually the reason it up for repair so the need to check it out is paramount before buying.

 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • tonydagee
      Calendar work certina 25-651

      By tonydagee · Posted

      Hello all, just disassembling to service, but I can’t figure out the working of the calendar work…it’s not operational the jumper and spring are ok, but the operation of the driving wheel has me at a loss. I can’t see a cam to drive anything. Is something damaged or missing? Help please!
    • tIB
      Unusual Seiko dial damage

      By tIB · Posted

      Believe the relume (not a fan) was done a long time after the damage. 
    • Malocchio
      Unusual Seiko dial damage

      By Malocchio · Posted

      I can only think of some chemical reaction to reluming
    • nickelsilver
      A lathe with indexing that won't break the bank?

      By nickelsilver · Posted

      I have a little milling attachment for my WW lathe, but very rarely use it and not for wheel and pinion cutting. For that I use a small Sixis 101 milling machine. I normally do direct dividing, but sometimes have to do an odd count and use the universal index which also fits on the Sixis.   Back in the day when I didn't have a mill, I would cut gearing on my Schaublin 102. It has a universal dividing attachment which fits the back of the spindle. Both it and the one for the Sixis are 60:1 ratio, and with the set of 4  index plates I can do almost any division. When I've had to do a strange high count prime number, I print a disc with the needed division and just place the plunger on the dot. Any position error is reduced by a factor of 60 so still plenty accurate.   The machines are a mess in the pics as I'm in the process of making a batch of barrels for a wristwatch 🙃.   This is the Sixis. The head can also be placed vertically, as can the dividing spindle.   Dividing plates. The smaller ones fit another dividing spindle.   Universal divider for the Sixis. I put it together with parts from an odd Sixis spindle that takes w20 collets, like the Schaublin 102, and a dividing attachment from a Schaublin mill.     The dividing attachment for the 102. The gear fits in place of the handwheel at the back of the headstock.   And the little milling attachment for the WW lathe. I just set it on the slide rest to illustrate the size, you can see from the dust on it it really doesn't get used much. I think only when I change bearing in the head, to kiss the collet head seat (grinding wheel still in the milling attachment).
    • SidKop
      Opinions on Seiko's 4R and 6R movement quality from those more able to judge

      By SidKop · Posted

      I read a lot about the quality (or lack thereof) of Seiko's 4R, 6R, 8L  movements...or more specifically the lack of regulation from the factory. Especially when compared to similar priced manufactures using SW200's or ETA's. I thought I'd ask those more in the know, do the 4R's and 6R's deserve their bad reputation, is it fairly easy for someone with minimal skills (or better yet a trained watch mechanic) to dial in these movements to a more acceptable performance.    For background I spent more on a 1861 Speedy years ago, expecting that the advertised 0-15s/d  would probably perform more like 5-7s/d. In reality it's been closed to 2-4s/d. 
×
×
  • Create New...