good news and bad news

[tedwhite]

Feel your pain, Joe. Once, not knowing what I was doing (does that sound familiar?) I decided to install an extended finger rest on a Glock magazine. Looking at the new rest, and at the one on the magazine, it seemed that if you just pushed with an ice pick on the small dot you could slip the old one off and install the new one. I did this, didn't work. Pushed harder, and finally, it began to move. Suddenly, it popped off, and, being helped by the very powerful spring behind it (forgot about that), missed my face and punched a small hole in the ceiling of my garage. I never found it. A day later I found the spring.

I have concluded that revolvers are much easier to fiddle with.

Back to your problem, f:2 is useful in lots of bad lighting conditions. My garage comes to mind.

 

[back alley]

my f2 lens, various aperture blades and the can of air!!

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Thanks, Joe! I always wondered about the shape of the blades... 🙂

 

[Trius]

Joe: Well, I count 10 blades, not 9; even numbers are good. They seem to be all the same size, etc., so that takes out a major source of error. What's the problem here? 😀

 

[tedwhite]

Me, neither. Looks like a ho-hum re-assembly job to me.

 

[back alley]

you guys are kidding...right?

 

[Kim Coxon]

Joe,
Actually it is very fiddly and a bit frustrating but not too difficult to do. On one the early jobs I did on a J8, I took the wrong clip out and ended up with a similar set of blades. I think it took about 30 mins to get it back together but would have been much easier with the help of another pair of hands.

Kim

you guys are kidding...right?

 

[john neal]

Hi Joe,

Did you get anywhere with your collection of parts (as in a reassembled lens)?

If not, have you considerd selling it as a diy kit? I have a collapsible 'cron and could use some spare parts.

BTW - I see you have the same hood as me.

 

[back alley]

john, i did just that, sold it.
it should arrive any day this week.

i just bought a clean & working canon 50/1.9 last night on the bay.

joe

 

[john neal]

Aaarrrgghhh! too late again.....


Never mind - saved from March GAS ;-)

 

[back alley]

sorry john.
i was contacted off the board with a request right off.

joe

 

[Stu :)]

Opps...

I bought 90mm/4 Elmar off Gene here on this board last year. I did the same thing! However my apature blades "exploded" when pull it the rings apart. However I fixed it, it's real easy too! But you've sold it.... doah. Even I would have bought it as DIY lens.

I've got bit more gung-ho of recent times, my 50mm collapsable Summicron is currently in bits, cleaned the apature blades and other optical internal parts, re-lubed moving parts. Next I'm going to recoat the optics. However the only snag is Leica's MC coating, soon as I know what's in the 'mix' I'll know what to strip the glass with and 45 minutes later in the vaccum chamber.... ta-da!

Stu 🙂