Well, I think I got it fixed now. It seems that the flange that protects the diaghragm lever has a little 45 degree notch, right where the lever sits when the lens is off the body. Lining the lens up to the body, it looks very much like the notch is there for mirror clearance purposes. The Soligor doesn't have the notch.
So, I carefully filed it down, took one test shot with the MX (there's film in the body, so I couldn't take a bunch), and - huzzah! - it works! Problem with your advice to sell the thing, Brendan, is that the crooks that I'd sell it to would turn around and ask well over $100 for it (of course, it may well sit in their window for years, waiting!). As I said in a post last night, answering Pat, I saw a Hanimex zoom at Downtown (probably still there) for something like $175! I know this little Soligor may be no world-beater, but I'm guessing it's better than a plastic Hanimex! Anyways, thanks again for the advice I got from everyone. If my quick fix don't work, you'll hear from me. I think I'll go outside and shoot some piccies. regards, frank the cheapskate ;-) Brendan wrote: > Humm Frank I'd sell it to a down town pawn shop for > $20 first. > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - 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 .
