I know this question probably gets beaten to death. I did some searching and it seems that, at some point, Phantom Defense remans were well-regarded for general use training/range ammo. Is this still the sweet spot? Is anybody using anything else that they really like?
Hey all, first post here! I bought a refurbed T14 Gen1 on Amazon and a few of the specs were misrepresented (screen resolution and keyboard not backlit). But I need it now/don't have time to return it, so I'm going to try some upgrades as I use it.
I'm looking for a backlit keyboard upgrade. Seems you can get compatible backlit keyboards on Amazon for $26ish, but Lenovo wants $80-$110 for their backlit keyboards.
Is the "authentic" Lenovo one worth 3-4x the Amazon one? Is the Lenovo model even different from the Amazon model, or are they just marking up the exact same hardware?
I finally snagged one of my dream watches, a Seiko Flightmaster (still in transit otw to me), and my plan was to go find a bracelet for it in what I thought was a really common "Jubilee" style. But now that I've bought the watch and am looking hard, this is proving more difficult than I thought. Uncle Straps has Oyster-style and President-style bracelets with SNA411P1-compatible endlinks, but not a Jubilee-style. Also, apparently the endlinks for this watch are kind of finnicky.
So here's my question: if I keep searching and it turns out no one sells what I'm looking for, could I buy a bracelet that has the correct endlinks (i.e. an Uncle Straps "Lincoln" \[President-style\] or similar), then buy a Jubilee-style bracelet with straight ends and "transplant" the correct endlinks from a non-Jubilee-style bracelet onto the straight-end watch? Is that a thing?
I have a Tandorio titanium turtle case that I LOVE, which is currently housing a lot of OEM Seiko components. The case came with a crystal that has a blue AR coating that I don't like. The Tandorio crystal is much thinner than than a Namoki I had lying around, which is designed to fit into factory SKX007 cases.
So I pulled out some calipers. The Tandorio crystal is 2.54mm thick, and 31.34mm in diameter. Of note, the crystal gasket that the Tandorio case came with is also a bit thicker than Seiko-spec'd Namoki gaskets I have lying around.
I looked on Esslinger and you can order uncoated sapphire crystals in 0.5mm increments. My question: if I order a 31.5/2.5mm sapphire to replace the one above, can I expect standard SXK007 crystal gaskets to fit it, or am I looking at some sort of custom gasket to make it fit?
Or maybe a better question: how much "slop" is there in Seiko crystal specs? Has anyone collected data on crystal median diameters and min/max variances observed?
Hey all, I'm working on a build and I need a 2.5mm thick sapphire that's 31.5mm in diameter. My Google is failing me, and I can't seem to find any source that lets you specify diameter and thickness *and* offers AR coating. So two questions:
Effect is even more pronounced irl. Both lumed discs (day and date) came from Namoki. Is this normal, or did I get a dud?
I bought a Tandorio brand FXD-style titanium watch case for an NH-36 build and I really want to add a lumed chapter ring. I *think* this is the same OEM that makes the Tactical Frog Pelagos FXD homages. I disassembled my case and punched out the chapter ring. I was expecting it to be flat on the bottom and glued in place like most of the other Ali titanium cases I've bought. However, it seems to have a proprietary "2-nub" indexing system (12 and 6 o'clock nubs, reminiscent of the factory SKX007 but further inward on the mounting surface of the ring)
Tl;dr, has anyone successfully modded one of these FXD cases with a luminous chapter ring? And if yes, could you tell me how you did it (or which chapter ring you bought, if you found one that worked out of the box)?