Beautiful. You the man! On Apr 16, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Don Sanderson wrote:
Hi All; I've been playing camera repairman again for the past several weeks and have gotten very tired of straightening bent filter rings via the "tap tap" method. Not wanting to shell out $100.00+ for a good ring tool, or $40.00 for a crappy Chinese one, I came up with this: http://www.donsauction.com/pdml/LensGizmo.jpg A $14.99 benchtop vise from the local home center and some screws and scrap wood. A few minutes work and I can make any size "jaws" I need. The rather lovely Hi-Matic 7s in the picture was badly bent, a few minutes later, as you can see, filters mount again! Thought someone might get some use out of this. (It's pretty handy as a bench vise too!) ;-) Don
