Mick Annick
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Started making a sign to hang outside the workshop…
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Tupers
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I’ve edited for you. I really shouldn’t type while watching tv.Translation please
Morrisman
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My new (to me) bike has no centre stand, don't think any of them did, so I made a little rack to pick it up if I want to change a wheel etc. It was just whatever bits of steel I had laying around. There seems to be holes for a centre stand, but nothing for the stand to rest against, when in use, and nowhere for a spring to hook either.
Farside
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The stupidity of making a bike without a centre stand... otoh, the modern rider just whips his card out and gets recovered, lazy gits.
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Finally back home with some time to play on the machines...
I need a lens spanner, and there's lots of dis-satisfied reviews online for the cheap ones, so...
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0.6mm wide protrusion is all that engages with the retaining ring!
There's a bit of tarting up I'd like to do, but I've just read the lens I'm trying to dismantle (Canon nFD 35-105mm f/3.5) has some secret screws under the rubber grip on the zoom ring, so I might not need it after all.
I need a lens spanner, and there's lots of dis-satisfied reviews online for the cheap ones, so...
(Pictured before making the tips)
0.6mm wide protrusion is all that engages with the retaining ring!
There's a bit of tarting up I'd like to do, but I've just read the lens I'm trying to dismantle (Canon nFD 35-105mm f/3.5) has some secret screws under the rubber grip on the zoom ring, so I might not need it after all.
Barking Mat
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What's a lens spanner ?Finally back home with some time to play on the machines...
I need a lens spanner, and there's lots of dis-satisfied reviews online for the cheap ones, so...
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0.6mm wide protrusion is all that engages with the retaining ring!
There's a bit of tarting up I'd like to do, but I've just read the lens I'm trying to dismantle (Canon nFD 35-105mm f/3.5) has some secret screws under the rubber grip on the zoom ring, so I might not need it after all.
I'm feeling stupid already.
I'm not 100% certain but I think it's for shearing off the little secret screws that you didn't know about when your trying to get camera lenses apart.
A bit like a minature adjustable peg spanner?
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Not stupid, its not a tool you'd ever come across unless you're playing with lenses.
Yes, a little pin spanner.
Here's a picture of a cheap one from eBay;
Lots of lenses have the front element (and often more inside) held in with a threaded ring with two slots of holes to engage with a tool. It's usually a big thread (67mm on the lens I'm trying to fix) so it doesn't take a lot of loctite or corrosion to stick it really solidly in place.
Yes, a little pin spanner.
Here's a picture of a cheap one from eBay;
Lots of lenses have the front element (and often more inside) held in with a threaded ring with two slots of holes to engage with a tool. It's usually a big thread (67mm on the lens I'm trying to fix) so it doesn't take a lot of loctite or corrosion to stick it really solidly in place.
Barking Mat
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I would have thought lenses were hand tight ?I'm not 100% certain but I think it's for shearing off the little secret screws that you didn't know about when your trying to get camera lenses apart.
A bit like a minature adjustable peg spanner?
Barking Mat
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Might actually work sturdier on watch case backs compared to some I've used
henry Kadzielski
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Finally it is where it is supposed to be, landed onto the steam engine.
Still needs painting and connecting up but that's not my job now
Still needs painting and connecting up but that's not my job now
Smallfry
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Thats a fantastic repair. I know what its like now my eyes are going. I am going to have to get some short range glasses just for welding.
I hate to think how much a professional would charge to do it to that standard.
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A friend has made a few videos on lens cleaning, repairs etc.
Skip to 6:10 to see the spanner in action
Morrisman
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I'd just tap it round with a dot punch and a small hammer.
Farside
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Proper job.Finally back home with some time to play on the machines...
I need a lens spanner, and there's lots of dis-satisfied reviews online for the cheap ones, so...
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(Pictured before making the tips)
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0.6mm wide protrusion is all that engages with the retaining ring!
There's a bit of tarting up I'd like to do, but I've just read the lens I'm trying to dismantle (Canon nFD 35-105mm f/3.5) has some secret screws under the rubber grip on the zoom ring, so I might not need it after all.
I just bought one of the cheapanese cheerful ones to wipe some mould from the inner of the front element on an M645 lens. Cleaned up nice, too.
The lens was $25 (and free shipping!) from Japan, and I didn't get clobbered for duty either, so makes the purchase of the lens tool amount to nothing.
I've taken a couple of zooms apart. Funnily enough, I've never put one together.
Oo-er, like a performance vmax that handles?
Morrisman
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Well, with just 66bhp I'd not call it 'performance'.... but it handles quite well and has R1 brakes.
Apparently it's restricted, something fitted in the carbs, but it can be easily removed, and up-jetted to 80bhp.
Sergei Slovenija
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Filter elements (dia. 300 mm) for IBC containers. Hose fittings machined on a lathe.
