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 Posted: Thu Feb 24th, 2011 08:40 am
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bigrustypig



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 I was at the Seiko AD recently and happened to find a nice all black watch that I thought would work well with a Zulu. But I wasn't too sure if I had a Zulu in 20mm with black hardware. The store manager quickly told me that she's heard of some WIS that coat/cover their stainless steel Zulu or Nato hardware with black nail polish...which our wives or girlfriends have lots of. Naturally it would help if the wife would do this "very complicated" trick for us. We cavemen would just mess up the entire thing with our paws.

She said a nice good coat would stay on the rings/harness for quite some time and just needed a touch up every once in a while. Of course, some masking tape to mask the nylon areas closest to the rings/harness would be a prudent thing to do while executing this clever maneuver.

I think she was right. I remembered that I once put a small drop of clear nail polish on the tiny screws of my Kampy's lug bars and it has been 2 years and those screws haven't moved a fraction of a millimeter at all.

Hope this 2 bits of info can help some on 3T. Dissenting opinions on the blackening are welcome.

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Last edited on Thu Feb 24th, 2011 08:43 am by bigrustypig