Rant: Dropped a Rolleiflex while cleaning the shutter blades

I was in my shop last Thursday working on a Rolleiflex 2.8F, cleaning some sticky shutter blades. My hand slipped and I knocked the whole lens assembly off the bench onto a concrete floor. The helicoid threads got bent to hell and I spent 3 hours with a jeweler's file trying to straighten them out. Has anyone else had a repair go sideways like this from just a simple drop?

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jason_stone4mo ago

Yeah, had a Hasselblad helicoid land just like that.

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ben8274mo ago

@jason_stone my wallet just twitched reading this.

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nora544mo ago

Oh gosh, a friend of mine had almost the exact same thing happen with an old Mamiya lens. He found one at a garage sale for next to nothing and it cleaned up beautifully. Jason, I bet you know that feeling of finding a real gem like that.

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