Dan: > What tool did you use to modify your baffles?
Well, the best way to do it would be with a bench grinder. However, due to the tools available to me (or lack thereof), my mods were made using just a hacksaw and a fine-toothed file (to finish it off). > It looks pretty clean. ...due to the "beauty" of a low-res scan - <g>. Seriously, both mods came out OK, considering the "skill" (<g>) of the modifier. > Did you repaint the newly exposed metal? I just went over the bare metal (from the cut itself, and from any "nicks" in the black paint that I made with the hacksaw or file) with a black "magic marker". (Touching it up with flat black paint would have been the proper way to go, but using a black "magic marker" worked OK for me.) By the way, I did not remove 100% of the "extra generous" baffle that the Vivitar engineers provided back in 1975 - I did leave a short length near the aperture coupling lever. This is similar to the way there is a short "baffle" (I think it's really a mechanical protection for the aperture coupling lever) on jen-you-wine Pentax K-mounts. Doing this also simplified the cutting, since I didn't have to hacksaw so close to the aperture coupling lever - <g>. Fred
