Some groups that have glue defects can be unglued the rest of the way by
soaking element in a pan of warm/hot acetone. If elements are glued with
balsam, this could work fast, I don't know, more research would be needed.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "swisspace" <swisspace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:22 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: I quite like using the fisheye on the E-1
>I unscrewed the black holding piece and could then pluck out a lens
> group, It looks like two elements glued together, and it has the
> appearance of fungus tendrils all around the outside edge - and they
> look to be between the two glued elements. there was then a metal spacer
> ring about 1.5 mm thick which fell out and next there is what appears to
> be another lens group, I m guessing it to be also two elements glued
> together, this I could't remove to fully inspect and it also had what
> looks like fungus tendrils around the outside edge, and I think I could
> see that they were on the now exposed surface.
>
> John Hermanson wrote:
>> Rear element in the 8mm is a group. I've never inspected a defective one
>> closely, but it is possible defect is caused by 2 elements coming
>> unglued.
>>
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