On 1/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >>I'd been so busy with the lens mount that I forgot about the body. >>The pin has a flat top and DOES NOT contact the M/K lens mount. >> >>So -- the solution is to add something to the pin to force connection. >> >>Time to experiement! > >I think Cotty and I may be forming a Pentax Mad Scientist's club. Wanna >join? <g>
It's great fun. Why only this afternoon I was stood chatting to a bloke at a precision engineering firm - he was juggling a few lens adapters and mounts with bewilderment while I was waving drawings and diagrams in front of his face. I was showing him the stainless steel ring of a Pentax K mount and the steel-covered brass of an EOS/M42 adapter and explaining that one needed to fit tight up against the other, and that the flange had to come off the K mount and that the screw holes that needed drilling also need to be counter-sunk to the same dimensions as those in the K mount and....at that point he asked me what my name was again. I must admit, I was slightly nervous when his stubby digits were toying with my adapters and mounts, and there's a guy walking past carrying what looked like the side of a submarine over to a machine that looked like it could staple the two halves of the Millennium Dome toegether - I'm thinking 'is this job maybe a bit too delicate for your gear'? "No, no, no, no, no, no - maybe. I'll need some time to think it over. I'll call you in a couple of days". With that I left my paper and metalwork with him and the submarine, and retired. At least he didn't say something stupid like "Why the hell d'you wanta go and do a fool thing like that for lad?" Because Pentax make damn good lenses, I woulda said. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
