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So as some of you know my Depth Gauge watch project has hit a little snag..... NO TUBES !!!!!!

I have a beautiful Depth Gauge dial and HandSet made by [mention]rmcsherry[/mention] "ROSS" and [mention]black_shark[/mention] and the hands have no tubes!!!!!



So I need to find someone to attach tubes to fit a Molnija 3602. Probably long tubes to be on the safe side like on these hands sold by River AKA TPS Tempus on eBay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Long-Tube-Gold ... 2038888646

Sorry to keep asking you guys for help. [mention]Mellons[/mention] [mention]Emilio[/mention] [mention]Yoda[/mention] [mention]binbin[/mention] [mention]unreformed66[/mention] [mention]Tanukjaju[/mention] [mention]blueradish[/mention] [mention]Aikidosan[/mention] [mention]esdee[/mention] [mention]river[/mention]

I am afraid that I don't know.

Since the hands are already finished and lumed, my uneducated guess would be that soldering is out of the question. You’re basically „stuck“ with adhesive or friction... I don’t think it‘s too hard to do given one has the right tubes.
If it were my project, I‘d go with epoxy.

Phaedros wrote:Since the hands are already finished and lumed, my uneducated guess would be that soldering is out of the question. You’re basically „stuck“ with adhesive or friction... I don’t think it‘s too hard to do given one has the right tubes.
If it were my project, I‘d go with epoxy.

+1

Friction is the typical solution for tall tube hands nowadays but that's not an easy task.

I would use Epoxy resin too.

did u consider to extend the hw/cp

Get some Molly tall hands and snip the tubes off, glue to the new

I thought the best solution would be to try to get someone to make tall cp hw for the molnija. In fact I'm also looking for someone who can do it.

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I have done two builds with those Ross hands. You have two options. I went with option 2

1. Get a set of donor hands and solder the tubes on
2. Leave them as is and broach them. You may need talk CP/HW but not necessarily. I didn’t. The broaching works nicely as they are pressure fit.

blueradish wrote:I have done two builds with those Ross hands. You have two options. I went with option 2

1. Get a set of donor hands and solder the tubes on
2. Leave them as is and broach them. You may need talk CP/HW but not necessarily. I didn’t. The broaching works nicely as they are pressure fit.

That's what Ross himself recommends

I'm guessing he is using a somewhat thick dial.

This is all excellent input , Thank You.

Ross this morning answered my PM saying they should be thick enough to brooch.....So we will see for ourselves!

[mention]unreformed66[/mention] hoping one of these solutions works.