Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> You don't need to be specially trained to take the lens groups apart. > Provided you do not try to unglue cemented elements or to take the aperture > blades apart, you really can't ruin a lens. A lens is (simply put) nothing > much more than some threaded pieces screwed together and with some retaining > screws put in. If you have any mechanical aptitude, you can take a lens, > even a Lecia lens, apart. Quite so, and the aperture blades need not be impossible to reassemble particularly on simpler lenses, I have seperated and reassembled the blades on a Summitar and a Russian 35 2.8, removing the oil with a quick wash in alocohol, they really only go together one way, so its just a case of fiddling till it goes together correctly. I recently bought a pair of "dead" Pentax spotmatics off ebay for next to nothing, I used one for spares and a "learning experienence" the other is now an EXC++ user and I had the satisfaction of fixing it myself. JBH