Originally posted by .a.t. Wow! Great news, Jim. I guess you've been living right!
And as far as I'm concerned, having too many lenses and spare parts is a good kind of problem to have.
Enjoy your toys,
Tim
Well the first one (an SMC-M K-mount) arrived today, but I can't get the name ring out... it won't budge. I'm using a jury rigged tool, the cap from a spray bottle plus some tape around the edge, so I ordered a tool (a big rubber stopper) to see if that works. BTW, this uses a 52mm filter, right?
So a 50mm lens ring tool (
http://www.amazon.com/Lens-Ring-Tool-42mm-Rubber/dp/B002QI1BTI) will work for it?
Actually now that I have this one, even if I could loosen the name ring, I don't know if it'll come off, as I see that there a small area at the front edge that is dinged. Also, the lens actually looks pretty clean other than the cosmetics, so I may just keep it as a working lens if I can't get it apart.
EDIT: Here's a couple of pics of the dented part of the filter mount ring:
and:
I've been researching what to do about that dented area and was looking at tools to remove it, but then I ran across this thread:
http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00Xhk1
and in particular the post by Clay James, Nov 19, 2010 where he says:
"If you have a section of threads that are flattened (a small section) then you can take a dremel and a small burr and remove the damaged threads, the rest of the threads will hold the filter in place."
I was actually thinking about doing this even before finding that suggestion.
The thing is, if you can see it in the pics above, the way that the ring was dented, the threads in the dented area a "compressed", and, because of that, I think that even if I got one of those vise tools to push the ring outwards again, the threads would still be messed up. I'm thinking that I can carefully grind the inside side of the filter ring mount in that area to get rid of the "bump" in the threads and then a filter ring should thread ok?
Thoughts???
Thanks,
Jim