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Help wanted: Auto Takumar 105/2.8 stiff focus
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:51 pm    Post subject: Help wanted: Auto Takumar 105/2.8 stiff focus Reply with quote

Hello to y'all,

Recently I acquired an Auto-Takumar 105/2.8 preset lens. This is the old version, black and silver two-tone like the image below.



Both the focusing is very stiff and the aperture ring at f/8 upwards. The latter is so stiff that I even unscrew the lens from its mount even before I get to f/16...

I would like to have some guide on how to open up this fellow so that I can relube the lens. I already did a Flektogon 35/2.8 and a Meyer-Gorlitz 200/4 but those seem much easier to do.

I already managed to take off the focusing ring and grease up part of the thread but that was not enough. But I just don't dare to go further yet, afraid of dropping ball bearings and the spring levered aperture.