Here is another way to get a filter off : Put some masking tape around
the filter to protect it. Get an automotive hose clamp that will fit
around filter and carefully tighten . This will put even pressure around
the filter and give you something to grip on to.
Frank
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:36:54 -0500 "Tom A. Trottier"
<TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 23 Dec 2000, at 17:28, sayeth Walt Wayman
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >If a filter is REALLY stuck, here?s how to get if off:
> >
> > 1. Put rear cap on lens and stand lens on kitchen counter,
> offending
> > filter up.
> > 2. Put three or four ice cubes in plastic bag.
> > 3. Set plastic bag containing ice cubes on filter.
>
> Uh, what size of ice cubes &/or lens do you have? It might be better
>
> & safer for the ice to be on the bottom, then the filter & lens.
>
> > 4. Wait five minutes. (A beer might help, since you?re by the
> fridge
> > anyway.)
> > 5. Unscrew filter. (Another beer is optional.)
> >
> > DO NOT heat the filter. That expands it, which only makes it
> tighter. You
> > want to contract the little sucker. Since the mass of the lens is
> much
> > greater than that of the filter, the ice cubes will contract the
> filter
> > long before the lens gets cold and tightens up on the it, and
> it?ll come
> > right out. Trust me. Simple physics.
>
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