Lens spanners with curved tips

[btgc]

I'm wondering if -teen dollar lens spanner wrenches from China are forged or I will be able to bend tips slightly? I need wrench to use it inside...say, tube and straight tips would scratch/rub against walls.

 

[rbiemer]

I have seen some that have "offset" tips that might work? Maybe try Micro Tools.
http://www.micro-tools.com/

Rob

 

[farlymac]

The set I'm using was made in China, and I haven't had a problem with them, other than the set screws always come loose. There is too much play in the cross shafts.

PF

 

[btgc]

microtools have some nice "made in Japan" wrenches. I'm just not planning to use them intensively, I have to fix one more camera - so I think.

PF - which screws yours has, with knurled heads or machined for lever?

 

[btgc]

Well, I filed tips of slick pliers and got ring moving. Now I can move inside shutter from aperture end.

Probably I will buy spanner wrench some day, though.

 

[Moto-Uno]

I'm depleting one box of tools into a camera drawer of tools with the help of bench grinders and files, like you I too will "some day" buy the proper wrench. Peter

 

[farlymac]

microtools have some nice "made in Japan" wrenches. I'm just not planning to use them intensively, I have to fix one more camera - so I think.

PF - which screws yours has, with knurled heads or machined for lever?

Knurled.

PF