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co2blog · 5 years ago

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How do you know if you’re being listened to?

I sit here a wonder if many people get up and speak their minds? I could imagine 95% of us don’t. Why? Simple because we are too scared to take a leap of faith and push forward. We are now in a time where our comfort zone is being invaded. You get told to stand up for what you believe in and stand up to the bully! But as I know all too well it’s not as simple as they put it in a text or on a video.

The pressure is always on us by the feeling of being let down, or threatened. There has to be an easier way of dealing with life. There always seems to be an obstacle in the way of our future.

I’ve seen so many video’s of People say chase your dreams. How will you know unless you throw yourself at it. You have to fail to achieve the goal. But not all of that is true. You want to live a happy life and feel like you belong, yet there is always the issue of money... The one enemy that holds us down. I know there isn’t an answer in this but I feel like there are a lot of questions and not enough answers. We don’t want to give up but sometimes Abuse, Bills, Loans, Loneliness. It Just piles on us and It puts us in a place we never wanted to be in.

When I was a child I never got told where to go or what to be, I felt like I was told more that I couldn’t do that rather than you go for it! I had to learn the hard way and I just feel children should be taught the dangers of the real world and how to budget money, or to invest for a higher future.

Then it feels like a repeat and reading so many posts similar to others. But in truth my journey is always in the firing line. But that’s for another story. Right now I am here to just keep peoples eyes open to Mental Health. I am one of the people who suffer with it and hopefully others can get the help they need.

I don’t want you to give up! I want you to keep fighting, but take it from someone who feels you’re pain.

The thing that keeps me going? My family. My kids are my world and I couldn’t take a father out of their lives. All I can do is fight and push myself. But if you feel like it’s getting too hard then seek help don’t think their isn’t, because there is. Sometimes it is just picking up the phone or messaging someone. Work, Family, Friends. Or if you’re too scared go online and see if there is a support group or professional help. We all need love in this world. And there is always someone who loves you! Even if you think there isn’t.

So I will ask ‘How do you know if you’re being listened to?’

Co2

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pkansa · 8 years ago

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The other day, I wrote about the Invicta 8926OB, and how it was a great little watch for less than $100 bucks. You know what you can do with watch that’s inexpensive? Modify it.

Modding has been around for ages. Various stores and watchmakers like MotorCityWatchWorks or Dagaz have supplied parts and services to modify Seikos for almost a decade. Bill Yao of MKII Watches began as a modifier – making dials and hands for Seikos, and then ETA movements, before cutting off the custom parts business and making expensive high-quality homage watches.

my own mod – new hands and dial in progress

What’s so satisfying about modifying watches is that with a little effort, you can take a watch that’s a little boring and make it great again. Whether it’s changing a dial from a black one to an orange DOXA style, or something else.

my own 8926OB mod

So I took the Invicta 8926OB and began to modify it. I did a simple dial and hands mod, where I changed the dial to a BSH dial. A BSH dial is one created for members / participants of a thread in the watchuseek forums called Brotherhood of the Submariner Homages. It’s signed with a very nice BSH logo, with the S comprised of a rope twisted around an anchor. The other dial text is the 200m / 660 ft water resistant indication. It looks nice enough with the Invicta hands, but changing to another set of Mercedes hands or even Snowflake hands really pairs well with the larger indices on the BSH dial.

photo: Buellrider

But that’s not where the mods stop. Most people who modify these watches remove the bezel and take a file to the side of the case, removing the INVICTA branding. With a bit of coarse filing, followed by sanding 400, 800, 1200, 1800, and some green polishing rouge on a cotton wheel, you can make it look like it was never there.

photo courtesy rbesass

With the bezel off, the more adventurous buy a checquering file and turn the scalloped bezel into a coin edge bezel not unlike the one found on the Tudor Black Bay. Here’s when people change the bezel insert color, or material, from aluminum to ceramic.

photo courtesy redzebra

By the time the watch is thoroughly de-branded, re-dialed, with new hands, and a changed bezel, it’s a whole new watch, and more than that, it’s customized to your tastes. Prefer the big crown trend of a year or two ago, where everyone was making Rolex 6538-inspired homages? File off the crown guards. Prefer a Black Bay style? Chequer the bezel and replace the insert with a red one. In fact, rbesass in the forums has gone on to make a new run of gilt dials, perfect for pairing with a Black Bay homage case (not the 8926OB) and gilt snowflake hands. The original black/white dial with silver lumed indices was managed by fmadrid.

photo courtesy rbesass

How does a small cadre, a cabal of unknowns, a crack commando unit, sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit, who promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground, begin such an adventure of watch lunacy?

photo courtesy hwa

In the beginning, there was one watch. It began when they decided to do a watch pass-around. One member donated a case, another assembled a dial from a one-off print-out and indices, and a third contributed the case and movement. The dial was printed by Fmadrid. Jelliotz applied the indicies courtesy of a dial donated by Imitrex. Paullyjay donated the case (Parnis) and movement (dg3804b). Jelliotz assembled and had the engraving done, making it truly a group effort. The humor wasn’t lost on them that the first BHST (Best Homage Submariner Thread) watch was a GMT homage. Mark Kiger contributed a stealth big crown sub, a dark-dialed 6538 homage with mil-sub hands after a prototype Rolex never put in production, with printing on the dial that was only really visible in the right light.

photo courtesy justadad

The logo was created by fmadrid, with a careful guidance from Justadad, Fullers1845, and Jelliotz. Once the logo and dial design was done, it was printed it on photo paper, then sent it off to jelliotz in the States. He finished the dial off by reinforcing the photo paper with a real dial plate and attached raised lume dots taken from a donor dial. it was a beautiful watch.

photo courtesy jtragic

The watch was a big hit, and fmadrid kept making paper printed dials for a while. Eventually, he was convinced to make it a reality for all the members. Around September of 2015, fmadrid contacted Dagaz watches and Helenarou and by October of 2016 for delivery, they’d made a run of date and no date dials for members. Managing a project is never easy – there are always delays and difficulties the first time.

photo courtesy redzebra

Recently, a run of gilt dials have been made by rbesass, suitable for a Black Bay style case. It’s another interesting development, and just shows how modification captures the imagination around cheap watches, and brings people together to appreciate these little mechanical wonders.

photo: Buellrider with coin edge bezel

That’s the beauty of this little corner of the gargantuan WUS forums – it’s created a brotherhood of sorts, and all you have to do to join is start participating, and share a picture of a diver style watch. There are days set aside for different types of pictures, heavy-metal-Monday for bracelets, 3-6-9-Tuesday for 3-6-9 watches, and so on. I’m still trying to make Leather-sub-Sunday a thing.

photo courtesy lifetrekker

Then fmadrid contacted Dagaz watches and Helenarou and made a run of date and no date dials for members.

Recently, a run of gilt dials have been made by rbesass.

And that’s the point of all this – fans of watches, forming friendships over forums, and creating things together that make owning a watch fun. Sure, the watch isn’t a huge investment – it’s not meant to be. It’s good fun, comraderie, and having the freedom to change things up.

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photo courtesy hwa

photo courtesy fmadrid

photo courtesy lifetrekker

photo courtesy flamingrabbit

photo courtesy jtragic

photo courtesy redzebra

photo courtesy justadad

photo courtesy rbesass

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photo: Buellrider

photo: Buellrider with coin edge bezel

my own 8926OB mod

my own mod – new hands and dial in progress

Modding the Invicta 8926 and watch brotherhoods The other day, I wrote about the Invicta 8926OB, and how it was a great little watch for less than $100 bucks.

#8926 #Automatic #Dive #Invicta #Seiko NH35

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