chopper_harris
Flying Brick Rider
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
Posts: 232
Location: Nr Wigan, UK
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 Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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It can be done, but often looks like poop afterwards 
To be honest, for $50 you would be better off with a shiny new aftermarket clock - there was an extensive thread only a few days back.
If you try to unpick the crimped egde which seals the bezel to the body, it will distort. It is almost impossible to reshape satisfactorily.
The way I have repaired some old British bike clocks is to cut a 3mm slot radially in the crimped face of the bezel, stopping 3mm from the outer edge.
Peel up one side very carefully, and use the dremel to cut a 5mm slot in the flange of the instrument case. Now peel up one side of the case flange.
There is a rubber gasket between the flange and the glass, which you need to soak carefully with WD40 overnight.
Now twist the instrument bezel, and guide the flat edge into the slot you have cut in the case.
The aim is to literally twist-off the bezel, as with a food jar.
Wrap a cloth around the bezel, or insert into a vice with wooden jaw guards, and twist.
It does work 
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