Perhaps you don't need to remove the lens mount in the 1st place. Just remove the black plastic screwed on the lens mount might give u enough space to work on the lens. Much better than removing the mount. But I have not worked on this particular lens (though I painted it matt black).
regards, Alan Chan >Sorry guys... that guy was me. :( > >I wasn't actually going to take it apart.... but was more curious to see >whether it was possible and how someone would go about doing this. > >There is actually what appears to be a small piece of hair on the inside of >the rear element. I had posted several weeks back a question to see if >anyone has ever sent their lens to pentax to have the lenses cleaned and >roughly how much it would cost. But no one every replied. > >I've e-mailed pentax and they cannot give me a rough estimate without me >sending my lens to them. > >I posted the message to see (and maybe I was very naive for asking) if >whether indeed it was an easy task to remove the bayonet mount and clean >the >rear element, if indeed that's where the little hair is. It seemed like >people in that newsgroup have probably done stuff like that and I wanted to >see what the exact process would be. If I know correctly.... removing the >bayonet to get the rear element would probably be disastrous. I'm assuming >there are little springs that hold the ball-bearing contacts in place and >that would probably be a pain in the a*$ to re-assemble... and not to >mention possibly calibrating the lens if any elements were removed. > >Anyways... at least I got a response from PDMLers by posting the question >on another newsgroup. :) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
