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Old 25-01-2016, 09:35 AM
cfranks (Charles)
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The FLT132 lens saga continues.
Having paid for the new lens, WO then suggested that they retain the old lens for one of their specialists to look at it and see if they could do something with it!! They sent the new lens via UPS who promptly stuck it in the mail in Melbourne. It was packed pretty well, multiple layers of bubble wrap around the cell and then in a small, well made wooden box. The whole then in a reasonably sturdy cardboard box with plenty of styrene foam. Someone, in its travels, must have dropped it from a fair height because the glass lens now rattles in its cell! Underneath the retaining ring is a ring with 3 'feet' that butt against the lens and hold it in place. Those feet have been pushed out of place by 0.8mm as measured with a feeler guage and the lens block can move back & forth by that amount.
WO say that it was perfect when it left them and asked me to adjust the retaining ring to get rid of the rattle but it is glued in place by a black paint or loctite and is absolutely immovable. I have to return it obviously but since it was a D.O.A, not a Warranty thing, we are arguing about who pays the return freight!! I certainly don't want to give it to AP. Trouble is, they have my old lens and can easily send it back with no further work on it if I get too stroppy. Bugga!
Of course, 3 or 4 days reply time to my emails adds a bit more frustration.
Charles
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