Hi, everyone. I am a new member to the site, although I have visited it many times. Many thanks to those of you who have made this an excellent resource. I recently acquired an SMC Takumar 85mm f/1.9 in M42 mount. It was described as having a heavily scratched front element, which was perhaps an understatement. It appears that a prior owner did or tried to disassemble it, and that somewhere along the line the INSIDE of the front element looks to have sustained a lot of scratches, perhaps ill-fated cleaning attempts.
Does anyone have tips on the process to disassemble this particular lens, at least to the point of being able to remove the front element and seeing if polishing the back of it would do any good? I don't have any special equipment at this point. I may pick up some JIS drivers, and it seems that a lot of these lenses first come apart by use of a rubber tool to undo the front name plate.
Anyway, thanks in advance for your assistance and congrats on a very informative site. (BTW, I have been using a lot of Takumar lenses on my Canon 6D and love it. Those old beauties are classics.)
Take care.
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