[Leica] Question about my poor broken lens.

[leicam4pro at yahoo.com (Photo Phreak)]

Hoppy,
   
      If you want to know about ill, you should have been with us that one 
dark time in Viet Nam when the bullets started whislting and Mark Birnbaum 
took a dive into the nearest ditch.  Alas with a new Nikon F and a 50 - 300 
zoom around his neck.....
   
  We certainly did not look pretty afterwards, and neither did the 
equipment.  As soon as we could I helped him immerse it into a bucket of 
distilled water back at the radio site.  And then it was all wrapped in 
plastic and sent off for repair.  I no longer remember if he got it fixed or 
had to replace all.

G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
  Philip, you have just made me quite ill. Never post any message again that 
includes the words Summicron, vise, vicegrips and a file.
Yes, I do understand your circumstance ;-)

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Philip Forrest
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:09
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Question about my poor broken lens.

Since it's a heavy Voigtlander lens, it's some nice brass. Easily bendable 
when dropped, but this works to your advantage in
repair.
I dropped my 50 DR Sunnicron out in Iraq on a marble floor & bent the 
mounting flange good.
...an hour later after some work with a vise, channel locks, vise-grips and 
a file the lens was back to working fine. The glass was
still perfect & that's what mattered. 
I'm not encouraging you to do a hack like I did. Leica repair is hard to 
come by in Iraq, so I had to. It's not too hard though
with the proper tools and knowledge. 
You probably bent a bit of the flange on the rear of the lens and it's 
impeding the motion of the focusing helical. As long as your
glass is intact, a repair should definitely be worth it. Especially so if 
you like this lens.
Philip

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 22:30:06 alvaro sendon wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I had what I like to call a "Bonk" moment last night. Where for 
> no reason at all my Voigtlander 28mm F1.9 slipped out of my hands and 
> smacked the floor.
>
> Nothing seemed apparently broken until I checked the focus ring and 
> noticed the extreme stiffness when rotating it. Does anyone know what 
> is actually broken?
>
> Just trying to decide if it is worth fixing considering the price of 
> the lens. Where can I send it to get fixed? Is it worth shipping it 
> out to DAG or Sherry Krauter?
>
> I am thinking that if it is $225 and under I will fix it, anything 
> above and I will have to consider it. Any opinions or suggestions will 
> be appreciated.
>
> Thank you;
>
> Alvaro Sendon
>
>
>
>
>
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