----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Spiro Subject: Re: sticky aperture ring - a-50/1.7
> My advice would be to leave it alone. The cost of the repair to have it > done professionally is more than the value of the lens. I would strongly > advise against trying to do it yourself. The parts under A and F lens > aperture rings are so tiny, and so hard to put back, that it is very likely > to end up worse than how you started -- I speak from experience. I tried to repair a sticky aperture ring on an A 50mm f/1.7, after reading Alan Chan's very lucid description of how to do it. The lens mount is now doing time as a 35mm to view camera adapter, the rest of the lens is now in the City of Regina landfill. I can strip and rebuild a BMW 3.0 liter inline 6, I can balance the carbs on a 12 cylinder E-type Jaguar by ear, and I can diagnose and repair almost any photo lab problem, but those darned A series lenses don't like me at all. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
