Replacement crown for Noobmariner

[rosamannen]

I sent a PM to BK, but unfortunately he doesn't have the replacement crown for the Noobmariner anymore.

Does anyone know of another way to get one at a decent price? The one that comes OTB doesn't feel quite right.

And if this is in the wrong place, please forgive me. I'm still a noob here.

[alligoat]

I don't know of any way to get a good replica crown, so that leaves buying a used gen crown as your best bet and then hoping that it fits on the replica case tube, which now days there's a fairly good chance that it will. Jewelerstools on the bay has them, maybe around $50, or maybe you offer him less. Don't know about freight to your locale.

Also, check out yukiwatch.com and see if they have anything.

Trimming up the crown guards a little might make your crown look better.

The crown and tube that came on my noob SSD are so good that I haven't even changed them out. We've gotten to the point nowdays where the crown and tube are decent copies of the gen.

[blue_sphere]

What kind of tube do you have? The fat tube should fit a gen crown. Post a pic!

[automatico]

"I don't know of any way to get a good replica crown, so that leaves buying a used gen crown as your best bet and then hoping that it fits on the replica case tube, which now days there's a fairly good chance that it will."

I wondered if a genuine crown might fit so I just now tried a genuine 7mm crown on a noob F520117 submariner...

The crown falls down over the case tube threads.

I did not remove the case tube because it does not have any splines in it like genuine but it looks like the hole in the case is the same or very close to genuine. Maybe a fix is an aft/mkt tube and a used genuine crown. Also need a 3.0.mm x .35mm tap to clean the threads out assuming they are the same diameter and pitch.

Maybe someone has installed an oem spec tube in a noob F520117 and will chime in.

So...the F520117 'noob toob' will not fit a gennywine crown (on this particular F520117).

note:

I bought six 3.0mm x .35mm taps (made in Bosnia/Herzegovina instead of Japan/Swiss) for $5 each compared to $25 or $30 from supply houses so shop around specialized tool outlets etc first if any in your area.

[alligoat]

I have put a couple of aftermarket case tubes in noobs w/ gen crowns. I used a rat tail file to remove the old tube, tapped the hole and counterbored it slightly. These were the old F520117 cases.

The newer M092117 case may have the better copy tube and crown, at which point all you would need to do is swap the crown.

My noob SSD (Z539117) has the better copy tube and crown and today when I was doing something else w/ the case, I checked a gen crown and it screwed right on there.