Kim Coxon
Moderator
First of all a big thank you to all the members who sent messages and lent moral support over the last few weeks. It certainly helped me to keep my sanity! Thanks also for the patience shown by those members who have had cameras and lenses sat on my shelf for the last few weeks. 😉 Anyway life is getting back to normal. My daughter is back at university and although she has had to delay a couple of exams, everything there is going well. My wife is also almost back to normal. Indeed on Sunday she was fit enough to resume her duties as "Snowy Owl" and take the Brownies out on their outing.
This left me (and the kitchen table) alone for most of the day and so I have caught up with everybody elses jobs and half of mine. The tele elmarit is back together after it's clean and re-lube (front element going to Arax), Oly 35SP had its glass removed, cleaned and re-assembled, J8 collimated, two unusable Canon 50/2.8's combined to make one good one, QL17 pressure plate problem sorted, Flektogon 35/2.4 diaphraghm unstuck, and cleaned, hopefully sorted the light leaks in the Mir and finally an Oly 35RC fixed. That mainly leaves the 3rd of the J9 to collimate the cron to put back together and some other minor jobs.
Anyway most of the jobs for others went out today and the rest will go in the mail tomorrow which leads me to the first problem. Along the way, one of the UK members asked me for a tub of grease. I can't for the life of me remember who and they are probably too nice to remind. So do drop me a PM and I will post it and then it will stop nagging me. Thast leads me to the second problem. The Oly 35RC was given to me and the shipping was covered by some filters. (They are in the post today Kuvvy, honest). As it came free, it doesn't seem right to sell it. So, if anyone has a good suggestion as to a worthwhile home for it, I would like to hear.
Kim
This left me (and the kitchen table) alone for most of the day and so I have caught up with everybody elses jobs and half of mine. The tele elmarit is back together after it's clean and re-lube (front element going to Arax), Oly 35SP had its glass removed, cleaned and re-assembled, J8 collimated, two unusable Canon 50/2.8's combined to make one good one, QL17 pressure plate problem sorted, Flektogon 35/2.4 diaphraghm unstuck, and cleaned, hopefully sorted the light leaks in the Mir and finally an Oly 35RC fixed. That mainly leaves the 3rd of the J9 to collimate the cron to put back together and some other minor jobs.
Anyway most of the jobs for others went out today and the rest will go in the mail tomorrow which leads me to the first problem. Along the way, one of the UK members asked me for a tub of grease. I can't for the life of me remember who and they are probably too nice to remind. So do drop me a PM and I will post it and then it will stop nagging me. Thast leads me to the second problem. The Oly 35RC was given to me and the shipping was covered by some filters. (They are in the post today Kuvvy, honest). As it came free, it doesn't seem right to sell it. So, if anyone has a good suggestion as to a worthwhile home for it, I would like to hear.
Kim
