Lens Cap needs repair!!! Oly 5060

"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...
Simple problem but not sure how to tackle it.
The lens cap had a felt rim just inside so it sat on the lens snugly.
The felt rim has dropped off (somewhere) and the cap doesn't fit so
wondering how to do a repair.

Help appreciated

Ken
A few drops of superglue will keep your lens cap firmly attached. No more
worries about a lost lens cap!

Yoshi

P.S. I love solving problems for people.

"Yoshi" wrote in message
...

"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...
Simple problem but not sure how to tackle it.
The lens cap had a felt rim just inside so it sat on the lens snugly.
The felt rim has dropped off (somewhere) and the cap doesn't fit so
wondering how to do a repair.

Help appreciated

Ken
A few drops of superglue will keep your lens cap firmly attached. No more
worries about a lost lens cap!

Yoshi

P.S. I love solving problems for people.

Mmm - Yes.

Perhaps if I then drill a pin hole in the cap I can have an olde fashioned
pinhole camera :- )

Ken

"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...

"Yoshi" wrote in message
...

"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...
Simple problem but not sure how to tackle it.
The lens cap had a felt rim just inside so it sat on the lens snugly.
The felt rim has dropped off (somewhere) and the cap doesn't fit so
wondering how to do a repair.

Help appreciated

Ken
A few drops of superglue will keep your lens cap firmly attached. No more
worries about a lost lens cap!

Yoshi

P.S. I love solving problems for people.

Mmm - Yes.

Perhaps if I then drill a pin hole in the cap I can have an olde fashioned
pinhole camera :- )

Ken

Advice specifically for you, no-one else would need it.

Do remember to drill the hole before you glue on the lens cap.

Roy G

"Roy G" wrote in message
...

"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...

"Yoshi" wrote in message
...

"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...
Simple problem but not sure how to tackle it.
The lens cap had a felt rim just inside so it sat on the lens snugly.
The felt rim has dropped off (somewhere) and the cap doesn't fit so
wondering how to do a repair.

Help appreciated

Ken
A few drops of superglue will keep your lens cap firmly attached. No
more worries about a lost lens cap!

Yoshi

P.S. I love solving problems for people.

Mmm - Yes.

Perhaps if I then drill a pin hole in the cap I can have an olde
fashioned pinhole camera :- )

Ken

Advice specifically for you, no-one else would need it.

Do remember to drill the hole before you glue on the lens cap.

Roy G

But why?

Ken

Ken wrote:
"Yoshi" wrote in message
...
"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...
Simple problem but not sure how to tackle it.
The lens cap had a felt rim just inside so it sat on the lens snugly.
The felt rim has dropped off (somewhere) and the cap doesn't fit so
wondering how to do a repair.

Help appreciated

Ken
A few drops of superglue will keep your lens cap firmly attached. No more
worries about a lost lens cap!

Yoshi

P.S. I love solving problems for people.

Mmm - Yes.

Perhaps if I then drill a pin hole in the cap I can have an olde fashioned
pinhole camera :- )

Ken


Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. Should be great for the next
eclipse of the sun!

Yoshi wrote:

"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
...
Simple problem but not sure how to tackle it.
The lens cap had a felt rim just inside so it sat on the lens snugly.
The felt rim has dropped off (somewhere) and the cap doesn't fit so
wondering how to do a repair.

Help appreciated

Ken
A few drops of superglue will keep your lens cap firmly attached. No more
worries about a lost lens cap!

Yoshi

P.S. I love solving problems for people.


Hello, Yoshi:

Well, then, you would've been even more helpful, had you advised Ken
to merely apply a single drop of "super glue" -- a little of that
stuff goes a long way, ya know what I mean? g

Also, here's an interesting article on this particular type of adhesive:

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cyanoacrylate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_glue

On a vaguely photography-related note, it states the following:

"Cyanoacrylate was discovered by Harry Coover at Eastman Kodak during
World War II when searching for a way to make plastic gun-sight lenses.
It did not solve this problem, since it stuck to all the apparatus used
to handle it. It was first marketed to industry as well as consumers in
February 1955 as a product called 'Flash Glue' which is still available
today and now owned by Gary Shipko, president of Super Glue
International, a United States based firm. It was patented in 1956 and
developed into Eastman 910 adhesive in 1958. The new glue was
demonstrated in 1959 on the television show I've Got a Secret when the
host Garry Moore was lifted into the air by two steel plates held
together with a drop of Eastman 910. Cyanoacrylates are now a family of
adhesives based on similar chemistry."

Yet another Kodak innovation -- eat your hearts out, Canon and Nikon
fans! :-)


Cordially,
John Turco

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:03:57 -0500, John Turco wrote:

"Cyanoacrylate was discovered by Harry Coover at Eastman Kodak during
World War II when searching for a way to make plastic gun-sight lenses.
It did not solve this problem, since it stuck to all the apparatus used
to handle it. It was first marketed to industry as well as consumers in
February 1955 as a product called 'Flash Glue' which is still available
today and now owned by Gary Shipko, president of Super Glue
International, a United States based firm. It was patented in 1956 and
developed into Eastman 910 adhesive in 1958. The new glue was
demonstrated in 1959 on the television show I've Got a Secret when the
host Garry Moore was lifted into the air by two steel plates held
together with a drop of Eastman 910. Cyanoacrylates are now a family of
adhesives based on similar chemistry."

I remember it well. In fact I mentioned it in this newsgroup
over a year ago. Were you lurking? g I ordered a sample of it
after seeing it offerred in a full page ad in Scientific American.
If someone has an archive with old copies of the magazine they may
be able to locate the ad and tell us what was being charged for the
sample. There was another company involved with Kodak, though, and
perhaps the other one actually manufactured it for Kodak. Here's
the relevant quote from the thread :


Nikon Stabilized Macro...
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:31:57 -0800 rec.photo.digital
. . .

Bill Funk...
HAH! That's why God invented Super Glue!

ASAAR...
Mais non, mssr.. God invented amber. And then he rested.

For Super Glue, credit (IIRC) the Armstrong Cork Company and
Eastman Kodak with their Eastman 910. I sent away for a sample when
it was first advertised in Scientific American. Neat stuff now,
neater back then . . .

http://www.burnyourbonus.info/rec.ph...thread291.html

ASAAR wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:03:57 -0500, John Turco wrote:

"Cyanoacrylate was discovered by Harry Coover at Eastman Kodak during
World War II when searching for a way to make plastic gun-sight lenses.
It did not solve this problem, since it stuck to all the apparatus used
to handle it. It was first marketed to industry as well as consumers in
February 1955 as a product called 'Flash Glue' which is still available
today and now owned by Gary Shipko, president of Super Glue
International, a United States based firm. It was patented in 1956 and
developed into Eastman 910 adhesive in 1958. The new glue was
demonstrated in 1959 on the television show I've Got a Secret when the
host Garry Moore was lifted into the air by two steel plates held
together with a drop of Eastman 910. Cyanoacrylates are now a family of
adhesives based on similar chemistry."

I remember it well. In fact I mentioned it in this newsgroup
over a year ago. Were you lurking? g

Hello, ASAAR:

No, I didn't "arrive" here, until April, 2006.

I ordered a sample of it after seeing it offerred in a full page
ad in Scientific American. If someone has an archive with old copies
of the magazine they may be able to locate the ad and tell us what
was being charged for the sample. There was another company involved
with Kodak, though, and perhaps the other one actually manufactured
it for Kodak.

Hey, hold on, Kodak and other U.S. companies actually made things,
themselves, back then...China hadn't even been invented, yet! :-P

Kidding aside, as a traditionally prodigious producer of film,
chemicals are right up Kodak's alley, if you will.

Here's the relevant quote from the thread:

Nikon Stabilized Macro...
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:31:57 -0800 rec.photo.digital
. . .

Bill Funk...
HAH! That's why God invented Super Glue!

ASAAR...
Mais non, mssr.. God invented amber. And then he rested.

For Super Glue, credit (IIRC) the Armstrong Cork Company and
Eastman Kodak with their Eastman 910. I sent away for a sample when
it was first advertised in Scientific American. Neat stuff now,
neater back then . . .

http://www.burnyourbonus.info/rec.ph...thread291.html

I think I saw such an ad (or a similar one), in an old issue of that
same magazine title, once, also.

(It was long out of date, by then, naturally. g)


Cordially,
John Turco