Found my old lens wrench from 1989 in a parts drawer
Those old metal wrenches had real grip, none of this rubber-nipple stuff. I used it on a stuck Canon lens ring this morning and it worked like I never put it down. Anybody else still keep their vintage tools around just in case?
Buddy of mine found his dad's old wrench in a toolbox after the old man passed. He used it to fix a jammed lens on his Pentax. Thing had been sitting in a garage for twenty years, covered in grease. He still talks about how it fit the ring better than any new one he's owned. Kept it in his camera bag ever since, even though he's got three newer wrenches.