Joe Gwinn wrote:
> The trick is to lay the lens out with bottom race horizontal, pick up a
>chain of balls with a small screwdriver and a magnet touching the
>screwdriver blade, lay the chain down in the race, then pull the magnet
>away from the screwdriver blade, releasing the chain in place. It took two
>or three repeats to get all the balls back in place. Then gently screw the
>rest of the lens back together, being careful not to dislodge the tiny
little >balls.
When I got these three lenses recently, I had to fix a part that had
seperated that controlled the aperture stop down, same problem on each lens.
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Then I discovered another problem, when the lens was at about 55mm, and
focused at infinity, its shortest overall length, the aperture wouldn't stop
down. Turned out the problem was a long control lever that pushed the
aperture was just slightly too long, and had to be filed down just a little.
Of course the lenses all had to be disasembled, which meant a lot of loose
ball bearings. To put them back in, I slightly magnetized my tiniest screw
driver by stroking it with another piece of metal, to pick up each one
individually. Then a slight jiggle would release it. I think your method
sounds much better. Where were you with this advice a few days ago? :-)
Wayne
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