V Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 Well what the topic title says.. How the hell I can remove the crown tube from the case??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbj69 Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 most r pressure fitted so for me the easiest way is drill it out but i beleive there is a tool to do the job just havent really done enough to bother with them , lol also i have been able to wiggle them out before just by luck i would imagine, lol hope this helps joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavor flav Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 i would love to know how to get that dam thing out! i'm sure fliplockbuckle has a solution for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbj69 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 i would love to know how to get that dam thing out! i'm sure fliplockbuckle has a solution for us! i just told u , lmao joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavor flav Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 i just told u , lmao joe i've had no luck wiggling them out.... drilling i've done but then the old tube is useless. maybe there is some sort of puller available. what i really meant is.....maybe if we nicely ask fliplockbuckle, he will show us the way to remove it with a hammer, a fork, and an old condom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbj69 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 lmao , or a hockey puck , lol u may get lucky here and there removing them and then reusing them , but imho u should replace them , im not sure it was pressure fitted correctly if u r able to get it out clean , and if u do im not sure it will seat again properly , but if water isnt a issue for u , u may try pushing it out from the inside with something the same size as the hole like the back side of a drill bit , u would have to cut it short ti get it inside the case and then u may could get some type of vise or something like that on it to push it out (then u could put some glue to secure it back in for reuse) , alot of work if u ask me but plausible i believe(this is mcgyver mod) lol joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted February 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Thanks for the replies guys.. It seems that there is no easy way to remove them... Btw where you can get replacements? Dealers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert.W Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Hey, New at this forum, acctually this is my first post. I love what you guys are doing,keep up the good work. Regarding the crown tube. Have you tried heating the case in boiling water or an owen, when heated cool down the crown tube with a cooling spray or just compressed air. It might just do the trick, be careful though if you heat the case to much you will have an abrasion in color, it is possible to repolish but better to avoid from start. I dont know if it will do the trick but then I can't see something wrong with trying or have I missed something. Jeb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sssurfer Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 I have once been able to remove the damn thing by using a tool that I found in a cheap chinese screwdivers set. That tool is sort of a screwdriver but it has just an iron cone head in place of the usual screwdriver head (so it actually is nothing more than a small conical chisel). I held the case in a vice, placed the cone tip into the inside hole of the crown tube so that the tool would touch the tube, not the case, and I gave a single, sharp hammer stroke on the tool. Quite strangely it worked. (With apologies for my English that is even less adequate than usual when trying to describe this sort of things) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dachshund Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 A small sized ezout should remove the crown tube, it will booger the inside of the tube but I can't see why you would want to use the same tube if it needed to be removed in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted February 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Thanks guys. I want to try to put a rep tube to a jimmyfu case.. So I want to remove the tube from one of my rep cases... I have found a great rep crown that it is amazingly similar to the OEM.. But it will only work with the rep tube.. Jimmys is too big and cannot fit the case well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavor flav Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 Thanks guys. I want to try to put a rep tube to a jimmyfu case.. So I want to remove the tube from one of my rep cases... I have found a great rep crown that it is amazingly similar to the OEM.. But it will only work with the rep tube.. Jimmys is too big and cannot fit the case well... i DO hope you are going to spill the beans about the rep crown...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted March 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 i DO hope you are going to spill the beans about the rep crown...... It is not a secret source. I got two 001 watches from Joshua.. One had the crap regular crown and the other one has a high polished thicker one (1,8 mm approx) with no bevel edges.. I guess it is just luck or another batch from the crown manufacturers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjeffers58 Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 One word Hockey Puck... Sorry that's two words Just ask Fliplockbucklebuster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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