Yeah, servicing requires patience, determination, strenght, ingeniuty, patience again, some cleverness, some more patience and a very large spanner
Of those qualities, I'm missing more than just the spanner.
]]>I could have written this piece, LOL. My very nice Vivitar Series 1 35-85mm f2.8 screw mount lens was working, but has a bit of oil inside, so I thought, how hard could it be to remove the elements and clean it? Well, I was very good at taking it apart, but it now after cleaning it, all the parts refuse to play nice and now the lens will not zoom with a full range. Only from 35mm to 55mm!
This is just one of the few lenses I took apart and each time I told myself, I could do better than the last time, but always ended up with the same, non-functional piece of metal and glass. Some day, I will learn my lesson and admit that I am mechanically challenged.
]]>Yeah, servicing requires patience, determination, strenght, ingeniuty, patience again, some cleverness, some more patience and a very large spanner
Of those qualities, I'm missing more than just the spanner.
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]]>Yeah... And while you're all LOL, the poor thing is lieing in the can...
Poor bastard! It wasn't his fault!
What a DASTERDLY DEED! Hmm, I'll try to remember this when I think about taking a lens apart. 
-Bruce
buze wrote:Bah, you beginners, you know nothing about the art of cruelty to lens ! : D
Thats the mount of a mint Flektogon 35mm f2.4 in Pentacon Bayonet. It went on the sacrifice table for The Greater Good (ie, developing the Kadapter)
Buze, could one take the bayonet off and make screw holes in the m42-eos adaptor to make it work?
Actualy I had that flat mount soldered (with soft tin solder) to a M42 adapter and it worked just fine, that was my first heavy handed try at using these bayonet lens
Poor bastard! It wasn't his fault!
]]>Bah, you beginners, you know nothing about the art of cruelty to lens ! : D
Thats the mount of a mint Flektogon 35mm f2.4 in Pentacon Bayonet. It went on the sacrifice table for The Greater Good (ie, developing the Kadapter)
Buze, could one take the bayonet off and make screw holes in the m42-eos adaptor to make it work?
]]>Thanks for the offer David, but there's no way in hell I'd get those parts from the kitchen trash. Those screws were tiny!
No, I give up. It was a cheap, ugly, dirty lens...and I killed it.
I do have to say that I read with interest. like a mini novel, it was great. Except I didn't like the ending.
One thing you should have done was keep all the tiny parts. May have been able to use them later. If I get a trashed takumar, I will disassemble it and keep all those tiny parts. So far I have been lucky. I also do not bid on ill focused lenses for sale.
]]>Thats the mount of a mint Flektogon 35mm f2.4 in Pentacon Bayonet. It went on the sacrifice table for The Greater Good (ie, developing the Kadapter)
The lens came to me "free" with a "needs repair" spotmatic (why do I buy this stuff?).
Not sure it will bring some warmth in your heart, but I do these kind of things too sometimes. And when I'm in front of the stuff, I wonder why...
We all have weaknesses
Rest in pieces, poor little lens