some ideas for homebrew tools for camera repairs

Yashica Electro 35 G series range/viewfinder assemble

fed up struggling with glasses when focussing a range finder camera?

 Cut an eyepiece from plastic lens of cheap glasses that suit your vision.

A sharpened tube spun in a drill will cut discs.

on some cameras the lens can be made a push fit in the eyepiece                  

On others make a small tube and glue it in place

Removing dents from lens rims

In a piece of half inch thick hard wood cut out a semicircle to the diameter of damaged lens rim.

Mount this wood former in a vice and lay the lens, dent down, in the cut out.  Getting another person to

hold the lens in place is helpful but not essential. Use a piece from a cheap toothbrush handle as a

drift to tap out the dent. With care and some luck quite a bad dent can be almost invisibly repaired.

Here are some wooden formers I use and the drift cut from a toothbrush handle!