Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I tried that.. it does not work. The head of the screw as well as the nut on the other side, stick up too far to clear some of my WA lenses. Tried a round head screw, a 6 sided machine bolt type, etc. And if you force a screw head into your lens' glass, well, maybe that explains why so many Leica lenses are sold with scratches on the back element! There was a guy on Ebay that was selling metal rear lens caps. Really nicely made. I bought a few. The depth of the cap was not enough to fit the back of the lenses...another failure. I just finished epoxying the 2 caps together. I first sanded off the back of both caps. Thuis was done by sanding the backs against a flat plate ( MDF) that had glued on sandpaper. Took about 3 minutes to sand off the backs evenly. More to follow.... Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net I think if I were home-building a rig to hold two lenses worth several thousand dollars each together, I'd invest in drilling a hole between the two caps and poking a fifty cent stainless steel bolt through the hole, and secure it with a twenty cent stainless steel lock washer and a thity cent stainless steel lock nut. Just my two cents worth of advice.