Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 01:00:11 -0500, Eric S. Emerson wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > Hi L.D., > I used a similar technique for removing > the back plate of my waterproof Seiko watch....only > I used a self-curing acrylic plastic applied to the > screw-off back plate to make a plastic spanner > wrench. I applied some lubricant to the back plate, > maybe silicon spray, so that the plastic wrench > wouldn't be permanently attached. The wrench has > worked for the last 20+ years and it doesn't scratch > the watch. I need to remove the back plate periodically > to replace the battery. Now you see the value of old fashioned approaches like wind up watches. A lot like using a DOS based browser, come to think of it. PML. GST+NPT=JOBS I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme t. See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other items on that page for some reasons why. -- Arachne V1.77+/B~5 Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --