In a message dated 11/19/2006 5:50:17 P.M. Central Standard Time,
USHER99@xxxxxxx writes:
Unfortunately there is 4- 6 mm of play
in the rear of the barrel just behind the tripod mount. Clearly something
is
askew. I can't see anything to tighten w/o disassembly.
Mike, When I got mine 3 or 4 years ago from an eBay seller who slow as heck
about shipping. Seems like he took 5 or 6 weeks to ship, after I had
PayPaled the money, it needed a cleaning. Rather than having a dirty filter,
a
large bug had crawled inside the lens (through the filter slot and died). It
then dried up and started falling apart. Things could be worse! I called
Tamron and was pretty much unimpressed with their price and the way they
hedged
their bets about any firm commitment for completing the project at or near the
high price they had quoted. Their price may not have been high and it was
about twice what KEH quoted me. I sent it to KEH and was please with the
service and the pricing. They had cleaned a lens or two for me in the past.
I'd
use them again.
Now to the play in the barrel. As you hold the lens with the lens mount
toward your body, as if it were mounted on the camera, there is a knob used to
loosen the tripod collar so you can change the orientation of the camera. If
that knob is loose on my lens, the play you mention is present. If it is
properly tightened, there is no play. I don't know why it is that way,
however
it has always been that way with my lens. My assumption is that there is a
reason it does that and the lens works just fine. Were it me, I'd shine a
small flash light through the lens to see if there was any dirt, dust or dead
bugs and if there were none, I'd probably not send it in for the CLA. I do
believe in fixing stuff that needs fixing, however if it doesn't then not
messing with it usually works for me. <{8^) Bill Barber
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