Thanks for the great instructional video Mark. I've ordered some C3 and C5 Luminova and will give it a try. Hopefully I don't make a Royal mess out of my dials & hands.
Found myself using this technique to apply an inner glow in the dark effect on a knife handle. A heavy slurry of luminous compound with epoxy as the base, applied with a brush. Very fun. I always use a UV laser to charge it.
Excellent video! Just for clarification, capillary action naturally moves the mixture between small spaces. The compound stays over the larger spaces due to surface tension. After watching this video, I am going to try to relume a cheap watch. Thanks!
You need to add me to your circles on G+ if you want a direct reply now because I can't reply to Andrew McCall's comment! This is crazy. Anyway - Not sure which country you are in but in the UK: www.cousinsuk.com/catalog/consumables/luminous-compound
Quick n' easy with the hour hand! Took me far too many tries to get the Mercedes hand filled in. I've got a question; how can I match the greenish tinge of lume on a dial if I'm mixing my own lume from a kit which is white-ish? Thank you in advance!
Hello, could you tell me the name of compound you used to create luminescence liquid please? I need to get it, couse want to maintain and restore 40yrs old aircraft indicator.
You shouldn't need to if you apply it thin. I do however like to mix it thicker to get the brightest lume. I try to max the room I have between the hands particularly on dive watches. I have had to use a sanding stick to thin them a time or two. Just make sure you use a clean new sanding tool or you will bring the black metal particles from your last project into your new lume and discolor them. It can show through to the front like a dirty window so the backs should be bright and clean like the front after you have adjusted them. Cleaning it off and starting over would be my second choice its a bummer but easy as well.
probably, but UV glue is probably a little better and also cheap. but both are acetone soluble so it can't hurt to experiment. potentially you can get a glossier finish since the binder doesn't shrink as solvent evaporates
@@ShortBetter paint is already loaded with pigment and with lume you're struggling to get a lot of luminous pigment in a small space. less obviously, a lot of luminous energy involves light being absorbed and re-emitted below the surface, and any foreign pigment will suck away this energy. so you'd want an acrylic binder/medium, which is a water emulsion and probably fine for the job. i have a suspicion i've read that luminous pigment reacts with water so you might want to look that up. acrylic emulsion can be found in small bottles in art suppliers and very large bottles for coating pavers etc. You might find something solvent based is better. also mixing pigments into paints can be non-trivial so it might be worth looking up how artists make their own paint
I bought some Luminova, and the English stuff that is supposed to be even better. I know you con't have guns where you are, sir, but any ideas what would make a nice lacquer type liquid to adhere the lumin to the sights on a Hungarian Browning Hi Power clone, a Daewoo K5 pistol, a Beretta PX4, and a Beretta FS86 .38 tip up? I had the plastic Perspex come out of one tritium sight, and had to glue in a new 2mm diameter piece of Perspex into the hole. That sight got hot from having to drill a U into the blade on the sight and drive in a roll pin into it. The manufacturer even lies and claimed, there was a special tool. The gunmaker uses the same exact drill bit I used. Their custom shop is only 2 miles from my house. They said "Use a number 48 drill bit". Exactly what I did, too, and it worked. I should have put a heatsink on the sight, though.
It's solvent based. Any kind of varnish may work. I also made some tests with epoxy resin. I didn't notice too much of a difference. The quality of the powder it's all that counts.
@@ezutguy May I know what chemicals can be dissolved? lume pip or lume dot. The surface is so hard, what method do I need to remove the original lume in order to relume it up?
Ajay Bakshi - Hi Ajay, Tag generally uses - Calibre 16 in their watches. It's around 28800 oscillations per hour and has a 42 hour spring for reserve. 25 jewels automatic
@@kawsarAhmed-bh7nz Are you familiar with the story of the 'Radium girls'? Shaping the brushes with their lips was how they got sick & developed cancer.
@@johno9507 yes my friend i know about this story . As a medical doctor i read about it somewhere. May be in Swiss watch factory the girls were shaping the thin brush of lumination by lips before each job. As girls are particularly best for this kind of precise job they were the victim of radiation of Radium.
ok, I added watch repair channel to g+ or I subscribed...I guess that's what I needed to do. I have question about tools....you had a really nice pair of tweezers, I would a pair of those. can you tell me what model they are?
