Lens Tools

[Guest Yachtsman1]

My current project involves dismantling camera & projector lenses. Usually these are assembled using threaded rings with inset lugs to fit whatever tool a particular manufacturer uses. Searching around the net, the only supplier I can find is in Hong Kong, I have no problems ordering from Hong Kong other than the time it takes. I have asked on the camera club forum I use but have had no response. So if anyone has a set at the back of a drawer they want to sell/donate to a worthy cause, please let me know.

Yachtsman1.

[coopernatural]

Eric,

Days of the Clippers from HongKong are long gone.

Your lens tool will usually take around 7 days to arrive.

Before you can get to use this tool you might also need a suitably sized rubber puck

to remove the lens cover piece.(try a well known auction site for these).

Also on the same site and taking similar time to arrive from the US is Helicoid grease.

Just look for 'Helimax-HP'.

For cleaning lenses try Amazon for 'Eclipse' cleaning fluid and use this in combination with

'Pec Pads'.

I recommend looking on a lens forum for some help and guides for people with experience of your lenses.

Some of these have to be disassembled - reassembled in a particular way.

If you can get a cheap old used lens from a boot sale,Charity shop or auction site, have a practice on that first.

You can wreck a lens in about a second,so proceed with caution.

Davy

[Guest Yachtsman1]

The lenses I am dismantling won't be re-assembled for the use I'm putting them to. I've attached a picture of what they will be used for & their sources.

Yachtsman1