Hi guys,
After receiving a new bezel AGAIN from
Suunto. I was determined to figure out what's causing the bezel to pop out in the first place. I will attach a few pictures of the modifications I've made to the new bezel to "Hopefully" solve this mystery which
Suunto doesn't want to admit.
First, I took a look at my old bezel which I noticed was broken from one of the 2 pins that hold it in place. This in theory means that the pins are facing too much tension to hold the bezel in place. With this cheap material which isn't surviving the pressure for a long time, then the only logical solution was to trim the inner tips of the pins in order to ease the tension when it clips in place.
To do this, I have used soft sand paper to shove the pins slightly. Many of you would think that this would make it easier for the bezel to pop out, but think that the bezel will not pop out because there's no pressure from the inner side to push it outside, and with extra glue in place then it should hold in place while the pins are still keeping pressure without being tensed.
Now that's hopefully solve one piece of the puzzle. The other problem is still with this layer that chops off. I tried to experiment on the old bezel to seek an easy way to chop it off. With nails, sharp knife, soft sand paper, pure alcohol, WD40, and boiling water, but didn't do much of an effect. By the way, the sand paper would damage the plastic of the bezel so don't use it if you are trying to chop off this layer with it. Eventually, I decided to mount the new bezel without chopping off this layer and hopefully it wouldn't start getting chopped by itself like the old one did.
The first picture shows how the right side pin is popped outward.
The Second picture shows how the new bezel's pins look like after I sand papered them.
The third picture shows how I placed the glue pieces. On the sides, I used the glue pieces that came with the
X9 bezels as they are thinner than the glue pieces that comes with the
X10 bezels. I cut the pieces in half and placed each on every side.
Hope this would have helped a little bit, and I'll keep you posted about the updates if it would work for the long term.
Luckily, I manufacture parts for diving purposes so if this wouldn't work then I might make a mold for it if many showed interests to have something decent made instead of this cheap material.
Regards. W.A.
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