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Old timer in Portland told me I was using too much epoxy on lens mounts
He watched me glue a helicoid and said I was making a mess that would harden and mess up the threads. I switched to a tiny toothpick dab instead of the big blob I used before and it saved me from having to redo two mounts last week. Has anyone else had to unlearn bad habits from early repair attempts?
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morganmartinez12h ago
Have you noticed how much leftover epoxy affects the thermal expansion of those brass helicoids? I had a old Pentax 50mm where dried epoxy cracked because the brass and the glue expanded differently in the cold. The old timer was probably saving you from that too, not just the thread issue. A tiny dab keeps the metal parts moving together naturally instead of fighting each other. What temperature swings do you guys deal with in your gear?
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shane_bell12h ago
Yeah, that toothpick trick is a lifesaver right? I learned the hard way that less is more with threadlocker compound on my own camera gear.
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