Its the pins and spring sitting on the lens. Once the mounting plate is removed - the pins are there. On this lens I think there are supposed to be 6 pins and 1 spring.

Hi Erik,

I`m looking for some of the gold pins and also one gold spring for a pentax DA 18-135mm (the pins from a different camera may also work)...

David

Good day all,

I have the above lens which has a broken / stuck aperture linkage. In addition I am missing two of the Gold studs and the spring.

The lens is not worth having repaired (quote was nearly GBP100), so if anyone has any spares I`d be more than happy to pay for them.

Alternatively, would anyone know where I could get these parts commercially?

Many thanks

David

We had a water bill last year for nearly Euro 3,000 - a little high for a quarter Complained about it and was told its because we water the grass ! So - end result was plastic grass (same as the football pitches)... Euro 1700 to install, clean it with a blower and this years similar bill was Euro 43.... more than happy with that.... Oh another bonus - NO GRASS CUTTING

Thank you both... supposedly its still visible this evening so with any luck I`ll have another look.... I doubt I`ll be able to wait until it comes back around so I`ll make the most of my chances

Having had absolutely no success in finding the comet, let alone actually photographing it, I thought I would try something different.

First quarter moon.





Ursa Major

It is supposed to be at its closest on 23rd so hopefully......
It would also seem that the timings I am seeing are far later than Stellarium etc forecast... I have it forecast here from about 2204 for about 80 minutes, whereas UK seems to be after 0100.... That to me would indicate I should be looking at about 0300 + because we are a couple of hours ahead of you... or am I missing something here.

I`m out tomorrow night for hopefully some milky way shots (clear skies allowing of course), so we`ll give it yet another go.

Yes, not having too much success here either

And I`ve just been corrected by SWMBO..... garden first

Ok... I`m sure I am about to regret this - whats SWMBO ?