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AF Nikkor ED 180mm f/2.8 - anyone ever dismantled?
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<blockquote data-quote="dieselnutjob" data-source="post: 719971" data-attributes="member: 47318"><p>today this arrived from Amazon, along with some fine drills</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4652.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>so I cut the cogs off of the die cast shaft and drilled through the centres of them</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4649.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>soldered each one onto a piece of steel rod that I found</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4650.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The ends had to be reduced a little.</p><p>I don't have a lathe so I put the rod in a drill and span it whilst gently touching the ends with an angle grinder.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that the solder really sticks to the die cast cogs but it does stick to the steel and I suppose takes up any gaps inside the holes of the cogs. I tried twisting the cogs relative to each other and the shaft and they don't budge so I think good enough.</p><p></p><p>This is the bit of the lens that houses the shaft:-</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4651.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>It took about seven or eight hours in total.</p><p></p><p>I'm looking forward to getting this lens back together now and playing with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dieselnutjob, post: 719971, member: 47318"] today this arrived from Amazon, along with some fine drills [IMG]http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4652.JPG[/IMG] so I cut the cogs off of the die cast shaft and drilled through the centres of them [IMG]http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4649.JPG[/IMG] soldered each one onto a piece of steel rod that I found [IMG]http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4650.JPG[/IMG] The ends had to be reduced a little. I don't have a lathe so I put the rod in a drill and span it whilst gently touching the ends with an angle grinder. I'm not sure that the solder really sticks to the die cast cogs but it does stick to the steel and I suppose takes up any gaps inside the holes of the cogs. I tried twisting the cogs relative to each other and the shaft and they don't budge so I think good enough. This is the bit of the lens that houses the shaft:- [IMG]http://www.christiantena.net/images/DSC_4651.JPG[/IMG] It took about seven or eight hours in total. I'm looking forward to getting this lens back together now and playing with it. [/QUOTE]
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