The serial number is in the high 500K, so it's a fairly early lens but quite
nice. Not sure it's worth shipping twice. Heck, I'd sell the thing for $25.
It works fine, it just doesn't 'click'.
Tom
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> There are a bunch of little 'dents' on the back of the ring in front of
> the aperture ring. There is a hole drilled vertically into the aperture
> ring. The little spring hides down in the hole. A tiny (1mm?) ball
> bearing sits on top of the spring and nestles in the 'dents'. When the
> aperture ring is turned, that pushes the ball down in the hole,
> compressing the spring until the next detent dent is reached and the
> ball pops up into the dent, much to the relief of the spring. Sounds
> like you don't have an extra spring, but are short a ball bearing. Run a
> magnet over your work area. If you can't find it, I think the same balls
> are used in the shutter speed detents and on/off/mode switch detents on
> the cameras and elsewhere in Oly stuff. I'd send you one, but I'm not
> quite sure about the sizes. They are all small, but I'm not sure they
> are all the same degree of small.
>
> This is the part one cleans up and relubes when the aperture ring gets
> stiff, gritty, etc.
>
> If that doesn't help, and you still want to unload it cheap, what's the
> serial #?
> Or you can just send it to me and I'll fix it up and send it back, if
> it's worth that much postage.
>
> Moose
>
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