Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ardbeg does that to you. Miracles happen. :-) Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 6:03 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > I posted a few weeks ago that my Ultron had stopped focusing, although it > was still coupling in the back and everything seemed to be moving > properly, the focus was way off. So, it sat on a shelf for a while and I > switched to a Summwhatnot 35 3.5 I had lying around while I tried to > figure out what to do. I realized how much I used the 35 and how useful > the 1.7 aperture is ? having to shoot at 3.5 seemed close to useless, so I > thought about just being a new Ultron, while picking up a new one i > noticed that the barrel was rock steady while mine had a little bit of > play in it. Could this be it? > > I looked at the lens on the shelf. There was a bottle of Ardbeg single > malt Islay scotch next to it. > > So, I did the only sensible thing, I drank the scotch and took the lens > apart with a Dewalt drill and a precision phillips head screwdriver bit. > > Behind the aperture ring I found three very loose screws that held the two > halves of the lens together. I tightened these down and spent the next > four hours trying to get the click-stop detente ball bering back in the > right place. When that finally happened, the rest of the re-assembly was > easy and focusing was restored. > > I?m posting this here for posterity. > > kc > > > Tags: voigtlander ultron 1.7 focus issues barrel wobble loose screws DIY > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information