Tony on Nostr: Someone was just getting rid of this because - as typically happens with old Soviet ...

Someone was just getting rid of this because - as typically happens with old Soviet lenses - the grease in the focusing helical had dried to old beeswax and it was impossible to focus.

During the course of two episodes of the X-Files tonight, I polished off some of the tarnishing, cleaned out the helical threads, and regreased it.

It is beautiful now.

This feels very, *very* satisfying.

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