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5 hours ago, jdrichard said:

Excellent job I have a pip missing from my Vostok diver and need to figure what to put in the opening.

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Hi there jdrichard, thank you, I would use some uhu 2 pack glue and mix it up with some lume of your choice, make sure you mix a good portion of the lume in the glue as much as you can get in the mixture and use an oiler to place it in that pip holder. You can dome it or fill it flat. Make sure you don't touch it with anything for a couple of days. It will dry looking like a lumed glass pip. It will stay there as it will be glue and lumed at the same time. I think it would look cool with bgw9 to add a bit of colour in the dark. The choice is yours my friend 

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On 11/28/2020 at 7:11 AM, Graziano said:

Manufacturing Seiko lume pip for 6309 7040. Using a staking set and peice of plastic from bergeon packaging which is the right thickness, once in the bezel I will relume with c3 and post more photos 

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Fantastic . Going to steal this method from you. Have done some with Lume and clear epoxi . But this would probably look better. And more original. Epoxi and lume would work fine on the Vostok 

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