Don't give them ideas!

Some supermarkets have already moved SWEETS from the checkout
counter

If I were dishing out awards for bad architects I would have to
give one to the Architect who designed a main supermarket in Cheshire
with a fancy window directly over the sweets and cigs counter so
that when the sun comes out it melts all the chocolate
So the shop can't have chocolate on display..... now they can't display
cigs either.... so that leaves just newspapers

A Hi-Fi extension lead should work?

OR

Buy an RF-602 Canon/Pentax Radio Remote off ebay for about
£20 works up to 100m away and can also handle flash. You need
two for remote AND flash set on different channels.

Most lenses will focus OK down to at least f/5.6 so can't you just leave them at f/5.6?

M42 lenses inc. pre-sets should work you can just set them to f/5.6, they should already be stopped down to that as you focus.

There might be a bit of tweaking needed with M42 lenses if they have black paint where the contacts should be.... a bit of silver paper would do. It's documented on the US forum.

You can search like that, but what I'm talking about is that
they shouldn't be using x as a wildcard in the first place.
It's not even listed in their search commands.

You can also use Pentax "1.7x" but shouldn't have to.

Wandering off a bit.... where the heck does that dealer
get all the 50mm f/1.7 lenses from? 43 No returned
by Pentax 1.7x

He currently has 384 Pentax items for sale

Don't Google and Facebook already do that

Great capture and I'm sure we don't have them in the North of
England either They are very interesting looking wasps.

Pentax are are just punishing US buyers for playing silly
with their marketing strategy

Glad you've sold it Don.

You really have to be very precise with ebay listings.
Unfortunately their search engine causes quite a few
problems as well.... it seems to take x as a wildcard
which it shouldn't... so searching for a Pentax 1.7x
which is a converter brings up loads of f/1.7 lenses
as well

The figures are available and Carling have it stamped on their
lager cans.

Bitter seems to be about 320/Litre

link

Whiskey 2070/Litre