Dude, I think you should have chosen another Noble Gas instead of krypton. Neon is the much closer in weight to helium so it would have less chance of damaging the balance & pressure. Plus, it would give your watch a healthy glow.
Hey guys, is this a joke? Replacing air with helium won't affect the mass of a watch as stated the OP.
Here's an approximation:
Density of helium: 0.18 kg.m-3
Density of air: 1.28 kg.m-3
Difference: 1.1 kg.m-3
Case volume: 4 cm diameter x 0.8 cm = 10 cm3
Assuming the helium completely fills a watch case with 5psi pressure above atmosphere (or 1.3 atmosphere), we have 1.1kg.m-3 x 1.3 x 10 cm3 = 14 mg, which is over a thousand times smaller than stated above.
Am I missing something???
This is a beautiful thread. Reminds me the time that we went into a new boy's room at 1am, did a radon check in his closet with a lacrosse stick and told him that we had bad, bad news...
Poor fucker was doing nude jumping jacks in front of the dorm when the dorm master came out asking what in the hell he was doing.
"Getting rid of the radon!"
Still get a chuckle at the radon check.
I saw some tests on You-tube. It showed that most gray market Helium was only 93-96% pure.
Shit I had no idea helium was in any of my watches ..... Seriously? Even in my Sub?
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Shit I had no idea helium was in any of my watches ..... Seriously? Even in my Sub?
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This was the whole intention of my original post. Getting the the word out. But you having a Sub - not a SD - might get you off the hook as if it has helium it must have been retrofitted with it.
