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PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 4:59 pm    Post subject: Blu-Tak, wonderful stuff. Reply with quote
I use blu-tak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-Tack) quite a lot in my photos to hold things in to place, balance wobbly stuff and even to hold hair, hats and other things in place when doing weddings. I am finding more uses. It is the perfect medium for holding lenses while removing filter dents. But heres another great use for it.

Opening lenses.

I recently bought a Polish enlarger lens that was dirty, aperture ring grinding and had particles floating around in the lens. There was no tool slots, screws or anything to open the lens. But a lump of blu-tak pressed into it and turned opened it up. The element came out when I opened the front of the lens but it kept stuck on the blu-tak ensuring I put it back the right way.

The lens cleaned up and the TTP method of putting lighter fuel into the aperure workings worked a treat.

I removed the back of the lens too I havent taken a photo of the lens in bits as I am superstitious and dont want to break it!

I think you can see from the photos it works fine.








I haven't tried this but a thick rope of it round the front of a lens could allow you to open it without resorting to buying the special rubber tools.

A versatile product.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I use blu-tak a lot too Phil, but I never thought of using it as a friction tool, great idea!


PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hello Phil, so the creativity is on your side too.

Hope your Mikar will be a good performer.

Macheck


PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
macheck wrote:
Hello Phil, so the creativity is on your side too.

Hope your Mikar will be a good performer.

Macheck


Hi, yes I hope so too, initial tests show it is sharp and pretty good for a triplet. I bought it in Łódź last week for 3zt. Cleaned up it must be worth 20zt. Seriously they are cheap as that and according to this post: http://forum.mflenses.com/my-new-lens-mikar-s-55mm-4-5-enlarger-extreme-resolution-t21579,highlight,%2Bmikar.html very good too. So I'm happy.

It would be nice to compare it against the Rokkor and the Schneider I have.

I was surprised it was M42 thread.


Iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
I use blu-tak a lot too Phil, but I never thought of using it as a friction tool, great idea!


Cheers Ian, try it and lets see what you can do with it.

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I've used this stuff to duplicate a key, erase ballpoint ink and to clean dry sticker residue from things.

I used it as a friction tool once when I needed to open a lock casing in an emergency and didnt have a key. After removing the brass bezel I was able to smash the base metal casting beneath. It probably saved a life that day.

Perhaps a good burglary tool. But if you do I'd make sure you don't leave any behind. It duplicates fingerprints perfectly.
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