Please help!

[Chris85]

Hi all,
What a horrible way to start Christmas. I managed to drop my 1/2kg+ reducer from focuser height straight onto the garage floor :-( It does have marine carpet so I'm sure the damage could be worse, but it did land with a sickening thud, and upon inspection it has bent the edge of the threaded side wall. Obviously it will no longer screw onto my focuser. Is it repairable or do I smash it into a thousand pieces and give up?
Devastated is an understatement.
Chris

[raymo]

Hi Chris, I can't see how bad it is from the pics, but if the dent is not too
severe, any machine shop will clean up the thread. It will be slightly
looser fitting, but should still be usable.
raymo

[glend]

I think its fine, try it. As long as it still inserts it should be ok. The small distortion on the inserting lip is not where the cylinder rests or the locking collar mates. If it does not insert then yeah it might be toast.

[torana68]

whats a new one worth? anything can be fixed...........

[PhilTas]

Chris,
Www.micro-tools.com sell a lens filter ring vise, which might help you.
Of course the caveat is : adjust a little, measure lots.
Hope this helps, Phil