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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 512298" data-attributes="member: 7240">This thread is useless...................Without images. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I'll play first. I gave my then 3 years old daughter a D40 + 18-55 back in 2012. She loves the camera, but as expected at some point last year (2014) she dropped it on the ground lens first. The end result: zoom ring jammed immobile.<img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5195/7409245036_f1246293c9_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I took the lens apart.<img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3928/15263389788_7df8b4f1ef_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The culprit was two small triangle shaped bits of plastic at the inner barrel (between the yellow tweezers below). The pieces had broken off and got stuck somewhere in the helicoid. <img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5599/15273919199_b51809acf5_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I glued the pieces back to place, buffed the parts to high gloss, strengthened the weak parts with epoxy and put the lens back together. I also cleaned some small specs of internal dust. It's better (and stronger) than new.<img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3949/15283418080_c560645d23_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />And here we are on our outing by the sea last summer (2015), happy as a clam.<img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3748/19397144130_25e8fb3594_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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