On Mar 20, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Well, there are news. > > There is sand inside the clamp, because I can hear it when I close/ > open > it. The clamp is already scratched because I had to keep using it > after > I got the sand. > > Anyway, I applied a running water and toothpicks. I took out certain > although small amount of sand. Then silly me decided that a bit of > lubrication won't hurt. After all, the sand came out greased which I > thought meant it took away some of the oiling of the clamp. > > So I applied just a drop of WD-40, the standard lubricant I've been > using for all kinds of household duties. Now the darn thing squeaks > madly when I close/open it. This is really bad, because the sound of > this squeaking may be very disruptive on location. Pre-opening this > very > section is awkward at best. > > Help me out. > > Boris
put some sand on it. Doug Brewer http://www.drivingtheflies.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
