PO crown won't screw in!

[kiplin]

I bought a 42mm PO from Tony about a month ago, and it's worked well enough, looks great and so on.. Then a few days ago, a member here bought to my attention that the ETA clones' winding mechanisms were 'smooth like butter', and mine felt as though it was grinding, making a soft, but audible buzzing noise, meaning it was probably a DG4813 movement.

Today I popped the crown to set the time before wearing it, and it now it doesn't want to screw back in - I can push it all the way down to it's usual 'closed' position, flush with the case!

I'm not too keen on sending it back to Tony who's been helpful, if a little slow to respond, as I'm really don't want to wait for two months to get it back, I love the thing to pieces.

Is this a common issue, is it easy/cheap to fix?

Thanks for the help..

[Jkay]

Yes the Planet Ocean replica crown and tube are notorious for stripping out and cross-threading. Luckily, the genuine crown and tube are an easy retrofit as well as readily available.

Do a search to find advice on this as well as suppliers and dollar amounts. It's not expensive, don't worry.

advice: don't use RWG search. go to Google and type "site:www.rwgforum.com UPO crown tube"

That tells Google to only show you searches on THIS forum site.

[kiplin]

Cheers JKay, you've been great at answering my incessant babbling. That's such a shame it's a common issue, any UPO/5g42mm almost demands to be frankened! I'll be sending it of to fxrAndy asap to get the full treatment.

Thanks