On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:15:40PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: > The problem is that the ball bearing is held "high" by a spring beneath it. > You must compress the spring so the ball bearing is low enough to slip > the aperture ring over. > Now imagine trying to keep the ball bearing "down" as you slide the > ring one. As you slide the ring, whatever you were holding the bearing > down with is in the way. You need something stiff and THIN that will > be strong enough to hold the bearing in, and yet thin enough that you > can pull it out from between the aperture ring and the lens when the > ring is *in place*. > > Haven't figured out what that stiff thin thing is yet and I have a > couple of repaired lenses patiently waiting in baggies for me to > figure it out.
The first thing I'd think of trying for "stiff and thin" (quiet, Larry!) would be the blade of a spark plug feeler guage. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
