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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:55 am    Post subject: Focusing ring material Reply with quote

Got this 3M outdoor anti-slip tape called Safety-Walk. It is 25,4 mm wide so fits many rings.

It finally came off and is not very nice anyways.



This it looks like here, price: 9,90 €, 4,57 meters will repair many lenses.



Approximate lenght.



Don't use your [wife's] best scissors, has some stony materials.



Final lenght.



Stick like glue like the King would say.



Look and feel very German.



PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice job & interesting material!


PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you, next I'll do the same to my Tamron 70-150.

Material does feel nice, don't know what happens when it wears.


PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent hint! Many thanks!


PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glue for holding something to stairs ought to have a long lifetime for light-duty use.


PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great, thanks for sharing the hint ...


PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That stuff is essentially heavy duty sandpaper - keep the lenses well padded and separate, you do not want to have any lens fitted with it move about against your other gear.


PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sevo wrote:
That stuff is essentially heavy duty sandpaper - keep the lenses well padded and separate, you do not want to have any lens fitted with it move about against your other gear.


I usually keep them that way regardless of material. Especially after a c/y-eos adapter made a huge scratch on my Kodak. Fortunately the Kodak material is some self-healing surface, the scratch is now gone.


PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tamron 70-150. Left is the original. No actual problem, just dirty and sticky as the AD1 ones usually are. (Don't worry, I saved the rubbers for museum value ..)

Here you see also the c/y-eos adapter which is far mode dangerous to other lenses than this focusing ring material.