w0lf Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hi Guys, Does anyone know where one might find a proper teflon gasket for a JF case/bezel? I know that JF takes a standard 35.5mm sapphire but I don't have the original gasket so there's a bit of play with crystal installed because regular rep gaskets are too thin. I'm trying to avoid gluing it in. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cskent69 Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hi Guys, Does anyone know where one might find a proper teflon gasket for a JF case/bezel? I know that JF takes a standard 35.5mm sapphire but I don't have the original gasket so there's a bit of play with crystal installed because regular rep gaskets are too thin. I'm trying to avoid gluing it in. Thanks! Wolf, there are many who have tried, none that I know of who bhave been successful without gluing it in. Rumor has it that gen Panerai gaskets work -- but who can get those. I am looking for this myself -- but woth no luck for nearly a year. Perhaps Oferi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w0lf Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Yes, I hear you.. It's not easy to waterproof a cemented crystal, catch-22 is - if you put too much cement it beads on the other side, if not enough the watch is not water tight. Can someone with the right gasket possibly give us the measurements? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 For that reason I have always elected to use the Jimmy mineral or gen crystals. The sad part is that if anyone ever figured out the exact sizing on the gasket you can order or have made virtually any size easily. I have gen and Jimmy gaskets but that doesn't help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w0lf Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Kruzer, Not necessarily, if you have a digital caliper maybe you could give us measurements of the gen or jimmy gasket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w0lf Posted July 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 Sorry for the necro post, but has anyone ever figured out what gasket to get for JF case to fit a rep sapphire when the original JF gasket is not available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babola Posted July 19, 2010 Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 For that reason I have always elected to use the Jimmy mineral or gen crystals. W, I've bought one of the early JFZu casesets including Sapphire xtal and gasket from him as soon as they apperared on eBay. The Sapphire xtal 'snapped' into the bezel perfectly. I believe the case maker changed the bezel xtal 'bed' diameter once the Sapphire xtals were replaced by mineral xtals, or something similar. We'll never know exactly what happened along the way, I guess. cheers, b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickHiC Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Ok, not to threadjack, but I've been trying to source a standard gasket for the plain cartel case and sapphire crystal. I think cousins has them, but I don't know the dimensions. Also they offer something like "I" and "L" shape, and I have no idea what's correct. Here's a perhaps very dumb idea for the JimmyFu problem: Try stacking two gaskets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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