Help!! 180mm torn apart

[sarah_f]

<p>Well not exactly but you have to get people looking at your post, right....<br>

Anyway........<br>

I was thinking "that focus ring is really stiff, def need some grease..."<br>

Let's remove those 2 tiny screws above the "Made in Germany" , turn right, left Bang!<br>

The thing is wide open: optics on the one hand, aperture ring on the other....<br>

I am looking for someone who would have done the same mistake, and hopefully had some advice....</p>

<p>You never know!!</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

[stuart_richardson]

<p>I would advise you send this to a qualified repair service and disclose that this happened if you ever try to sell the lens. I am not trying to be dismissive or rude, it's just that these are not user serviceable items, and by cracking it open you have potentially damaged or misaligned the lens, but depending on how rigorously you use the lens, you may not notice. If you later sell the lens to someone else who uses it for larger enlargements, they may find that they just spent a bunch of money on a lens that was damaged by amateur repair. And yes, I have bought a few lenses like that where no error was disclosed, and then I found out that someone who did not know what they were doing had been rooting around in the lens, stripping screws, putting in the wrong type of grease and so on. </p>

[pc_b]

<p>Ey Sarah, you did get people looking... and wondering how one person alone can act so stupidly.<br>

Sidenote: why haven't you googled 'repair manuals'? You know, they're roughly in the same category as train tickets: get one _before_ the ride!<br>

Oh, I just realised: this wasn't a helpful post... who cares?</p>

[doug herr]

<p>Which 180?</p>

[sarah_f]

<p>You both are insulting and do not even deserve attention. May you get a brain for Xmas..<br>

Stuart, I never said I was considering selling the lens, your speculations are pure slander!<br>

The 180mm Elmarit R 2.8 2 cams</p>

[pc_b]

<p>Oh, I got mail!</p>

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<p>Well, I think such Leicaist drive is best put into prose by paraphrasing Master Greenspun:<br>

.. a feisty boor of a girl wondering why a 5000 dollar lens cannot be greased like a door. </p>

<p>(Too bad it doesn't rhyme! Greenspun is so hard to beat!)</p>

 

[stuart_richardson]

<p>For what it is worth Sarah, I was speaking the truth when I said I did not mean to be rude or dismissive. These lenses truly are NOT user serviceable, and yes, you really should send it to a professional. I never meant to imply that you would knowingly sell someone a broken lens, just that you might do it <em>unknowingly</em>. That's what's written in my post, and I stand behind it. Regardless, I hope you find a way to get your lens back into proper shape. </p>

[doug herr]

<p>FWIW I have repaired and modified some of my Leica reflex cameras and lenses w/o benefit of repair manuals. Mechanically they're straightforward, robust designs, something that cannot be said for some other brands of equipment I've repaired. Unfortunately I have no experience with this particular lens.</p>

[ken_ford1]

<p>PC B, in fairness to Sarah - your post was more than a bit dickish.<br>

Sarah, get thee to a repair shop.</p>

[steve_swinehart]

<p>You're much braver than me. I never take anything apart that has little tiny screws - like watches and camera equipment. If lens elements have come out of the lens, the lens may need to be collimated and aligned in order to match factory specifications. My advice, send it in for CLA to a Leica repair specialist.</p>

[pc_b]

<p>...dickish? - What on earth is 'dickish'???<br /> My whole wall of books didn't give me an anwer. So I went to the Internet around the corner and found the following in the 'Urban Dicitionary':<br>

1. dickish<br /> to be brash and insensitive to another. to put your own interests above all else. to act like a p___s.<br /> by Mason Williams Oct 30, 2004 share this comments<br>

2. dickish<br /> Slang, adjective;<br /> A description of the improper use of the word (d__k) acting as a d__k would. ie: spouting or discharging grossly without thinking!<br /> by chadakel Jan 29, 2008 share this comments<br>

3. dickish<br /> a bad thing that you do. As a result of doing a bad thing that causes you to be called a d__k. cheating on your girlfriend while she is on the same bed as you with some chick you dont even fancy while drunk is a dickish thing to do.<br /> by ___ dan runtic Apr 27, 2003<br>

Now, who "in fairness" started calling names and using dirty words? Yeah, who?<br>

Instead, why didn't anybody comfort Sarah? After all, she busted her newly acquired dream lens. Up to now, nobody did. Weird, isn't it? Of course, I won't start now - who would believe me? (Because sincereness and cynical remarks still don't go together in American moral philosphy...).<br /> But I do know that anxious feeling Sarah must have had (from sending in dropped/crashed lenses and not knowing whether it's going to be a 100 or a 800 dollar job).<br>

I openly made fun of Sarah who blew it the grand way and still felt like making a big stir about it. For this I've gotten called a handful of dirty words by now. So this is the standard of pnet?<br>

I do, however, stand in awe at the combined luck and skills of D. Herr. I would never ever think of working at lenses/cameras without a repair manual. Call me over-cautious - oh, no four-letter-word! Too long!<br>

To all who still got a sense of humour in their hearts instead of a lump of stale self-righteousness (falsely referred to as fairness): Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year! Pete</p>

[sarah_f]

<p>it's been fixed...just needed to find the right screw........</p>