Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread mike wilson
From: Michel Carrère-Gée [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/10/05 Thu AM 05:25:26 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Need some help with lens reasembly... mike wilson a écrit : Matt Kelch wrote: In trying to disassemble a lens I accidentally dislodged a few

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread Doug Franklin
mike wilson wrote: If you look at parts 506, 508 and 509, they are the ones you want to refit, along with the detent ball and spring on the opposite side. They will go in place on the main lens body and the aperture ring will slip over them. If only Would an appropriately sized piston

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread mike wilson
From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/10/05 Thu PM 12:20:49 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Need some help with lens reasembly... mike wilson wrote: If you look at parts 506, 508 and 509, they are the ones you want to refit, along

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread David Savage
On 10/5/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would an appropriately sized piston ring compressor from the auto parts store help hold everything in place while you slip it into the barrel? I suspect something like that will be the official tool

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread mike wilson
From: David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/10/05 Thu PM 12:59:48 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Need some help with lens reasembly... On 10/5/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would an appropriately

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/10/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: I suspect something like that will be the official tool to do this job but a normal ring compressor would probably be too thick and get in the way. I found that I could tilt the ring enough to hold the ball in against the spring on one side

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread mike wilson
Cotty wrote: On 5/10/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: I suspect something like that will be the official tool to do this job but a normal ring compressor would probably be too thick and get in the way. I found that I could tilt the ring enough to hold the ball in against the

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Cotty wrote: Next time I have one apart, I am going to build a jig. What about a reel... mike wilson wrote: Cotty wrote: On 5/10/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: I suspect something like that will be the official tool to do this job but a normal ring compressor

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/10/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: Next time I have one apart, I am going to build a jig. Or dance one ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
sorry about that, it was a better answer to your post anyway... Cotty wrote: On 5/10/06, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: Cotty wrote: Next time I have one apart, I am going to build a jig. What about a reel... Incorrectly attributed Peter, I did not write the

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/10/06, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: Cotty wrote: Next time I have one apart, I am going to build a jig. What about a reel... Incorrectly attributed Peter, I did not write the above. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/10/06, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: sorry about that, it was a better answer to your post anyway... That's right, kick a guy when he's down -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-05 Thread Bob Sullivan
Matt, See this diagram that I have crudely drawn. http://picasaweb.google.com/rf.sullivan/LensRepair/photo#4982517534313021458 It concerns some of the small parts you highlighted in your 2nd picture. The little curved cap is an electrical contact for the A setting on the lens. When A is set,

Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Kelch
In trying to disassemble a lens I accidentally dislodged a few parts without getting a good look at how they went together and where they went. I would greatly appreciate any help. BTW, it is a SMC PENTAX-A 70-210mm lens. http://www.vulc4n.com/images/lens1.jpg

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-04 Thread Bob Sullivan
Matt, look for a little ball bearing and a small spring that I don't see. They make the 'click stops' on the lens. Regards, Bob S. On 10/4/06, Matt Kelch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In trying to disassemble a lens I accidentally dislodged a few parts without getting a good look at how they went

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Kelch
I've found the ball bearing, the spring is in the picture I believe. (Its partially inside of the piston looking thing) I'm just lost at this point how it all goes together. Bob Sullivan wrote: Matt, look for a little ball bearing and a small spring that I don't see. They make the 'click

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-04 Thread mike wilson
Matt Kelch wrote: In trying to disassemble a lens I accidentally dislodged a few parts without getting a good look at how they went together and where they went. I would greatly appreciate any help. BTW, it is a SMC PENTAX-A 70-210mm lens. http://www.vulc4n.com/images/lens1.jpg

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-04 Thread Powell Hargrave
In trying to disassemble a lens I accidentally dislodged a few parts without getting a good look at how they went together and where they went. I would greatly appreciate any help. BTW, it is a SMC PENTAX-A 70-210mm lens. This may or may not help. F70-210

Re: Need some help with lens reasembly...

2006-10-04 Thread Michel Carrère-Gée
mike wilson a écrit : Matt Kelch wrote: In trying to disassemble a lens I accidentally dislodged a few parts without getting a good look at how they went together and where they went. I would greatly appreciate any help. BTW, it is a SMC PENTAX-A 70-210mm lens.