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[OM] Re: Infra-red heat lens repair

Subject: [OM] Re: Infra-red heat lens repair
From: David Carter <spotz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:59:20 +1300
This leads to
http://www.emsdiasum.com/Summers/optical/cements/manual/manual.html

David


Walt Wayman wrote:

> Jeff,
> 
> Look at this before you decide what to do:
> 
> http://www.skgrimes.com/popsci/index.htm
> 
> Walt
> 
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from 
> the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
> Edward Weston
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jeff Keller" <jrk_om@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>>After removing the original cement with Acetone? - then cementing them back
>>together. How reliable is the process ... if I have a lens that still works
>>fairly well should a repair be attempted or should I wait until it gets bad
>>enough that I don't want to use it?
>>
>>-jeff
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "PhotoSphere Olympus Camera Service" <olyfix@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: [OM] Re: Infra-red heat lens repair
>>
>>
>>
>>>We just use the lens cement Fargo sells that is UV cured -- just clamp the
>>>cemented elements together and put them in the sun for a while!  I've
>>
>>fixed
>>
>>>dozens of 75-150's that way since Olympus ran out of the elements....
>>>
>>>
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