Re: Stuck retaining ring on a Kodak Stereo

[wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Wier)]

>You don't say what you have tried so far , so apologies for the obvious
>solutions.
>

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>4.) Last resort (maybe).  I did this once on a Viewmaster camera.  Cut a

Another last resort (maybe). Use a penetrating oil to loosen the threads.
On another mailing list I'm on, this topic came up in dealing with
50 year old stuck mechanical components. The runaway favorite was
a product calle Kroil, with Liquid Wrench a distant second. I've not
used it myself.

You'd want to be very careful to set the camera so that the oil would tend
to run away from the lens assembly rather than the opposite. I'd think
that would imply positioning the camera body so that it's sitting 
with the lens against the table (ie, face down) while you let it work.

I'm ASSUMING that it wouldn't etch the glass - but you never know....
maybe it could be tried on another piece of glass first...

THANKS

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