Need repair advice on Casio Triple Sensor

[bigcozy]

From the earlier thread about the triple sensor - I too have had the post that holds the wrist pins break. I don't know how to try to repair it. I superglued the whole thing together and it broke again. Anyone do a repair on these? A watch guy I took it to said that if I sent it to Casio odds were they would just replace it rather than fix it, wondered if anybody had tried that.

 

[Wingerr]

I've heard that Casio has pretty good customer service, but I haven't tried sending it back since it was post warranty. A friend with a G-Shock once sent it back to them to get the batteries replaced because he needed to maintain full water resistance, and they ended up sending him a new one.
I do consider the brittle plastic a defect though, because that kind of failure really shouldn't happen-
The plastic databank watches seemed to have the same problem.
I just got a covered type nylon watchband for the Triple Sensor watch, so that it's retained adequately, even though it's only held on from one side. The velcro cover keeps it from flapping- Not the right solution, but it was either that or use it as a pendant watch-

 

[Gandalf]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bigcozy:
From the earlier thread about the triple sensor - I too have had the post that holds the wrist pins break. I don't know how to try to repair it. I superglued the whole thing together and it broke again. Anyone do a repair on these? A watch guy I took it to said that if I sent it to Casio odds were they would just replace it rather than fix it, wondered if anybody had tried that.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Do you have the green one with the leather band, or the black one with the black plastic band? (Mainly curious...)

Superglue isn't good glue for most plastics, because it works by forming covalent bonds with oxygen molecules. Many plastics have no
'free' oxygen molecules for the cyanoacryic to bond to, so it doesn't work.

I've had pretty good luck gluing broken plastic using the quick set JB Weld glue. The trick with this glue is to rough up the surface, all around the break with sandpaper, and then build up a layer of the glue all around the fracture point. This allows the glue to actually structurally reinforce the broken area, rather than just hold the two broken pieces together.

I have a leather briefcase with a plastic latch that I broke about 2 years ago, and it's still holding up to the weight of the briefcase. The glue is a dark grey, so it doesn't always look very nice, but I bought this $100 briefcase for $30 when a Sears store went out of business near me, so a repair job put it back in use for me at almost no cost.

 

[bigcozy]

I have the green one, the band is green nylon with leather at the ends.

My watch repair guy told me to use JB Weld, and then he would drill a precision hole for the pin. This is probably the way I am going to go.

Also, I just bought a Casio Marine Gear watch, that no one, not even Casio, shows that they make. It is similar to the Pathfinder, but smaller and has the barometer and altimeter functions. It also works as a depth finder if you are underwater. It has metal around the back of the case and extends the wrist pin posts.