canuck2
August 2nd, 2009, 06:03
I owned a Casio W-201 for many years. The 10 year battery finally gave
out, I bought a new battery and like with all my previous Casio watches proceeded to install it myself.
I opened the back, but could no find any way to get the old battery out! The Casio manual suggested it should be taken to a dealer, but this not easy in a remote place in Canada.
Still, I happened to go to the big city, and once there went to Sears who are dealers for this watch. I asked their watch repair man to put the new battery in while I watched. No problem, the repairman showed me how to get the battery out and how to install the new one, while he did all the work.
Problem was when he was finished, :oops: he could not get any of the 4 setting buttons to work!
Well, lucky me, the store still sold the same favourite watch and I bought a new one. But I asked the repair man to give me my old watch back, because I decided to see whether, with a bit of fiddling around, I can find out what why the setting buttons stopped working.
Once back home, I took the old watch apart again looking for any mechanical problem of the button operated switches, but could not find any.
In the process I took off the entire metal mask on the back of the watch display chip, which also holds the battery assembly. Inside I found a tiny loose spring. I read before on a Watchuseek post that this spring is part of the watch's alarm bell.
So now I am trying to find out where to put the spring back in its proper place and how to attach it there. I am also curious why the setting buttons do no longer work. Does anybody have any ideas? :roll:
out, I bought a new battery and like with all my previous Casio watches proceeded to install it myself.
I opened the back, but could no find any way to get the old battery out! The Casio manual suggested it should be taken to a dealer, but this not easy in a remote place in Canada.
Still, I happened to go to the big city, and once there went to Sears who are dealers for this watch. I asked their watch repair man to put the new battery in while I watched. No problem, the repairman showed me how to get the battery out and how to install the new one, while he did all the work.
Problem was when he was finished, :oops: he could not get any of the 4 setting buttons to work!
Well, lucky me, the store still sold the same favourite watch and I bought a new one. But I asked the repair man to give me my old watch back, because I decided to see whether, with a bit of fiddling around, I can find out what why the setting buttons stopped working.
Once back home, I took the old watch apart again looking for any mechanical problem of the button operated switches, but could not find any.
In the process I took off the entire metal mask on the back of the watch display chip, which also holds the battery assembly. Inside I found a tiny loose spring. I read before on a Watchuseek post that this spring is part of the watch's alarm bell.
So now I am trying to find out where to put the spring back in its proper place and how to attach it there. I am also curious why the setting buttons do no longer work. Does anybody have any ideas? :roll: