On Dec 29, 2006, at 6:33 PM, rg2 wrote: > well, no, i'm not sure, but it is silver and shiny so i just > assumed it was > metal. is there silver paint?
It's probably a burr from machining that didn't get smoothed out at the factory and fell off later. A magnet won't move it because lens barrels are aluminum alloy. I'd ignore it if it was my lens. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

