Recent content by HELIbrent

Yeah sounds good 10fenny! Im 33 so id be happy grabbing a beer sometime...ill be sure to reach once were in town and settled. Yeah the spring thing seems like a fairly widespread faulty design - it does just shoot off and im like 'well there she goes...' When I was lookinig around for a blue...

Oh cool...SE Portland! We are moving to somewhere in the area in the next few months, maybe I can look you up if your up for that! Yeah, isnt there a Portland in Maine I think....I didnt know which one you were claiming :) Im very happy to get my pretty blue baby going again. My next buy will...

Many thanks Bowtie! I hadnt heard of that site.....I figured there would be one like that which helps alot. Crazy, I didnt think I could forget the spring entirely cuz it tensions the lens right? I had tried to screw the cap in and out but the focus never changed or tightened at all....

Thanks....those are the proper dimensions that are appropriate for the 501b? As u can tell im a uber newbie. Is there any site to just buy springs? I havent found one yet... R u in pdx or the east coast portland?

Hello all, Heres hoping you may know how to help... I bought a blue 501b from Eitan at Sci Fi and let my brother mess with it and then discovered he had fully unscrewed the focusing cap for the beam and the spring which tensions the beam into focus fell out. I have email Eitan multiple times for...