Hi Team, I have been away touring the Aussie Alps for six days, drove over 2000km, about 600km of it on corrugated unsealed dirt roads. I shot 35mm, 67 (Mamiya 7) and my Oly E-10 digital, about 300 images in all. My partner was using a Super A and the new SMC FA-24-90, as normal procedure for me I clean all my gear on return from a trip starting with compressed gas (big bottle and regulator).
I had the gas pressure regulator at 30psi/~300kpa and was using my standard trigger style hand piece with ~2.5mm aperture, I hit the front element with a burst and the plastic facia ring surrounding the front lens element flew off. I was quite surprised and manager to snap it back in quite easily but each time it blew straight out. I have never experienced anything like this with a Pentax lens before (even at 65psi) and I have been cleaning my lenses this way for years. Anyone with similar stories? BTW I use compressed industrial nitrogen which can also be used to displace the air in photo chemical bottles :-) Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - 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 .
