Workbench Blues

[br1078lum]

This is where I try to fix what I can on the various stuff I have accumulated.  The bench came from a Virginia Tech surplus auction, and used to be a student study module, with a slide projector showing lessons on a small screen at the end of a tunnel built on the shelf.  I added the top shelf to hold stuff that I don't use very often.

Workbench by br1078phot, on Flickr

Today I started to fix a couple of oldies, like my Meteor that needed relubing, and an Ansco that has a leaky bellows (yeah, I know Pete, check my post on Big and Gray B&H).  Then I tore into a Zeiss 440 turret finder that has a cloudy prism.

Zeiss Ikon 440 Turret Finder_1 by br1078phot, on Flickr

It was interesting to see the construction of this finder.  There is even a set screw in the head of the screw that holds the turret onto the front of the finder.  It took my smallest screwdriver to turn it. After getting it all disassembled, I determined that it was unrepairable by me, as I have no idea how to disolve the glue that is holding the prisms together, and if I did, it would probably ruin the mirror surfaces too.  So I just put it back together, and put it in the 'Get Rid Of' box.

Zeiss Ikon 440 Turret Finder_2 by br1078phot, on Flickr

So I gots dem ole

Can't fix it

Wish I never bought it

Gotta get rid of it

Workbench Blues

PF

[radiophoto]

That Speedex has the easiest strut construction for installing a Bel-Jac, just so's ye know, PF.  Lots of room underneath, lots of clearance on the sides. 

Sorry about your finder.  But I like your workbench!

[LarryD]

That lens you have on the shelf dead center looks like one I got for shipping from here and took apart. I even got it all back together and it works.... I call it the mystery lens.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokerphotography/sets/72157617321804185/

Off track by inetjoker, on Flickr

[br1078lum]

Larry, those are a pair of Sears 90-230mm zooms that are either fogged, or fungaled.  I've got a third one that is usable, but could use a cleaning, so I thought I would learn on the two on the shelf.  Problem is, not one of them is the same make.

PF

[LarryD]

This one is a t-mount preset UNIVERSA.