"larry g. olsen" wrote in message
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Do any of you readers know how to remove the links in the stainless steel
bands on these watches? It appears to be easy but the pins that you can
see
through the holes in the links do not want to compress. There are
directional arrows on the side of the links that would be against the
wearers arm. Not sure what they indicate, but they are on the links that
appear to be removable for shortening the watch band.

Did one today.

Well, not a Victorinox, a Brietling/Bentley

Look at the pins, one end is smaller than the hole.

Get a very small drift (any good jewellery tool supplier will sell you the
drift) and tap out the pin from that end into a special block that comes
with the drift.

Grip the pin that emerges from the other end with a pair of pliers and
remove it.

See
http://www.suttontools.co.uk/acatalo...al__Tools.html

Mine is the one at the top of the page, it's reasonably easy to do, you
even get a 'toffee hammer' so you can't hit it too hard...

Oh yes, I charge £2 a link...

--
William Black

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Barbeques on fire by chalets past the headland
I've watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off Newborough
All this will pass like ice-cream on the beach
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