Some of you may have seen this....
... from last Thursday's WRUW thread.
Well, after I'd given it a good clean up I noticed that the bracelet was a bit 'sloppier' than I was happy with; so I took it apart for a closer look:
It's as well I did because some of the pins & tubes were/are in a pretty bad state, and a couple of (what was left of) the tubes came out as fragments and others were almost worn through:
The ones at the end-links were worst affected and this pin (from 6 o'clock end-link) is about 5mm shorter than it should be as it too has just worn away (or snapped off ?):
Much more wear and it could have 'let go' at any time.... and we all know how Sod's Law works
I can use a few from the spare links that I have, but going to have to bite the bullet and spend a few quid to put it back together properly ; the pins & tubes for this thing don't come cheap. Yes, I can get cheaper after-market ones; but pretty sure they'll come back to bite me in the @rse if I go down that route. ..... Will have to adopt my Dad's philosophy: You buy cheap - You buy twice !