Tiktok Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Just bought this off the bay of evil, £200 posted from the states. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhippy Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Looks ok just hope for your sake it works fine. Second hand stuff such as this type of thing can be a bit dodgy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiktok Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Thought it would make nice little project, changing the seals and such like if it's not working, I would think there won't be much to it inside and with it all being mechanical rather than electric it should be easy to get my head around sorting it out. I might even try and rig it upto an electric compressor to get a vacuum working off a switch. Not sure what would be involved in doing that until I have a good look at but if nothing else it gives me a shell to work on. The Rolex 1050 vacuum wet test I use at work goes to the same -.9 bar this one is rated to and the Rolex ones are over £4000 on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 55 minutes ago, Tiktok said: Rolex ones are over £4000 on eBay. £3800 of that is for the name! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiktok Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 1 hour ago, Geo said: £3800 of that is for the name! Your probably not wrong there! Seriously though, I have struggled to find a wet vacuum tester for a while, plenty of cheap pressure testers around for the £200 mark but they only go upto 6 bar which is no good for 100m watches. From experience a wet vacuum test to -0.9 barwill nearly always show where the leak is after a watch has failed in the dry tester at either 10 bar pressure or -0.9 vacuum, so given the choice for one machine at home the wet vacuum test should be an accurate test and will also show where it is leaking, presuming I can get this old machine working properly. If it is knackered I could always remove the omega badge and paint a Rolex badge on it and stick it back on eBay half price at £2000!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobm12 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Buy Bergeon seals they'll probably go for the 3600 pounds you are missing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endeavor Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) Are you sure it's not an old blender ? Sorry, I couldn't resist......... Edited April 26, 2016 by Endeavor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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