Help Tag Microtimer Battery change

Help Tag Microtimer Battery change

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Sheetmaself

Original Poster:

5,845 posts

211 months

Thursday 16th January
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Right, let’s start off by saying i am a tight Northerner so when my Microtimer starts showing signs of needing a battery change what do i do?

Yep thats rights, armed with zero knowledge and a tiny screwdriver I decided to open the back.



The battery is held in by a cage but i cannot for the life of me work out how to free this and it is very flimsy metal.

So i decide to have a poke around!!



Potentially it has a hinge on one side so I poke around some more!





Then i seemed to get a screen error type message of garbled up characters and I souled myself!

A few seconds later the watch restarted and showed 00:00:00 and is now working!!

So I guess the question is how do I remove the cage?

Any help greatly appreciated.

blue_haddock

4,348 posts

80 months

Friday 17th January
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I've no qualms taking the back off my cheaper quartz watches and swapping the battery but for anything more expensive or specialist i'll happily pay my watch guy to do so.

He only charged me a tenner for a battery change in my WAZ1111 Tag F1 so its a no brainer.

Sheetmaself

Original Poster:

5,845 posts

211 months

Friday 17th January
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I was hoping it would be a lot easier than it turned out to be!

I also tried with my quartz Omega didn’t manage that one either!

blue_haddock

4,348 posts

80 months

Friday 17th January
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I actually really like these microtimers so have a search set up on eBay, there are a couple of guys who advertise battery changes so might be worth reaching out to them and seeing if they can sort it for you.

Sheetmaself

Original Poster:

5,845 posts

211 months

Friday 17th January
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Honestly I fancied trying it myself and figured it would be reasonably easy. It would be if i could work out how to remove the battery cage.