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Showerthought: the plastic gear in that cheap zoom lens stripped mid shoot and I glued it back with epoxy
Lost the zoom ring on a customer's 90s kit lens last Thursday, right in the middle of a sensor cleaning rush, and the little plastic gear inside just crumbled into three pieces when I touched it. I know everyone says toss those lenses, but I mixed up some two part epoxy, built the missing tooth up with a tiny bit, and filed it smooth with a needle file. It clicks a little at the 50mm mark now but it turns and the guy picked it up Friday happy. Half of you are going to tell me I'm wasting time on junk glass, so what's your cutoff for fixing versus handing it back and saying sorry?
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