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The cap is hopefully made of plastic. See if you can get
a replacement then scrap it to see if the lens thread is
damaged. If not, place the replacement et voilà!

Good luck and chain the beast! :D
 
Brute force required, happened to me in the past with macro adapters refusing to budge from the mount. Had to just grip, close eyes, pray, pull and turn like you're trying to open the most stubborn jam jar ever!

If you can't get sufficient grip, try using an elastic band around the cap

Best of luck!
 
Can't tell is there is a UV filter screwed in, if there is be careful. If there is a filter it will have smashed so if too rough unscrewing it you can grind it into the front element.
Check that !, it looks like it might be the body end of the lens so obviously there would be no filter, I would try to free the no damaged end where the spring release is and see if I could get that clear first.
 
Mike54 said:
Can't tell is there is a UV filter screwed in, if there is be careful. If there is a filter it will have smashed so if too rough unscrewing it you can grind it into the front element.
Check that !, it looks like it might be the body end of the lens so obviously there would be no filter, I would try to free the no damaged end where the spring release is and see if I could get that clear first.
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It's the front end, some old lenses have the aperture ring at front, but you can tell by the markings which way up the numbers are.

If it's this lens:

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It doesn't appear to have a filter attached. As the front element is recessed I would chance strong arming it if nothing else works. At worst, you might damage the filter threads
 
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A bit of BF&I (brute force and ignorance!) should get the cap off. At least the lens is old enough to be pretty robust (I wouldn't advocate the BF&I approach on a modern AF lens) so shouldn't suffer from some force (within reason, naturally.) An old type bottle opener, as found on some tin openers might do the job with a little less of the BF required.

When I first saw the thread title, I was expecting to see a photo of the little barsteward covered in your blood!
 
Marc said:
Well, brute force and ignorance it was. Miraculously, there was no damage, not even to the lens cap!



Oh, we've been there! :LOL:

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Glad to hear you managed to save the lens! What body are you attaching it too, and how does it perform? have threatened to buy this very lens a few times to date
 
Water pistol, but it will be a long, long time till it trusts you again. If ever.
 
Marc said:
Well, brute force and ignorance it was. Miraculously, there was no damage, not even to the lens cap!



Oh, we've been there! :LOL:

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Older lenses are, as I said, pretty robust. Good job you didn't have a "protection" filter on it!!! :P (Having said that, I'd probably use a UV or skylight filter on a lens used on a film camera.)

Good to see he's leaving his marcs!
 
Cagey75 said:
Glad to hear you managed to save the lens! What body are you attaching it too, and how does it perform? have threatened to buy this very lens a few times to date
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It came with my OM10 but I sold that on, bought an adaptor and attached it to my Fuji X-T1. It's a cracking lens and plenty available on ebay for very little money

Stumpy said:
Water pistol, but it will be a long, long time till it trusts you again. If ever.
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I wouldn't do that to him but he's that tenacious, it probably wouldn't phase him.
 
I use a water pistol to dissuade our monster from destroying the chair she loves to shred. Stops her for a minute or 2 but no longer! She's not bright enough to connect her behaviour (natural cat behaviour!) with getting hit by a small dribble - she just stops what she's doing out of shock. Works as a distraction when she's stalking wildlife too.
 
We have found the cardboard scratching boards with a liberal covering of catnip saved our sofa from 99% of this attention (when one of the two isn’t sleeping on it...).
 
Believe me, we've tried everything! She refuses to use any scratching posts etc. we provide, using assorted carpets, shelving units, garden benches and trees/shrubs instead. Her favourite shredding target is my big blue armchair which came from Dad, as did the cat, so it's been her territory longer than it has been mine (although she was never "allowed" to scratch it, she always has!). Similar story for her favourite garden bench (which she has always been allowed to scratch.)

Better furniture and plants than legs!!! :D (Although Mrs Nod's feet seem quite chaseable!)
 
Any spray bottle works, we have 2 Moggies, and they can be royal pains - one spray from an aerosol or pump bottle in their general direction sees them leg it outside pronto
 
Cagey75 said:
Any spray bottle works, we have 2 Moggies, and they can be royal pains - one spray from an aerosol or pump bottle in their general direction sees them leg it outside pronto
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10 moggies here and i had to use a water spray bottle last night as an un neutered Tom was having a go at one of my small males,he soon legged it once he got a splash of water
 
SsSsSsSsSnake said:
10 moggies here and i had to use a water spray bottle last night as an un neutered Tom was having a go at one of my small males,he soon legged it once he got a splash of water
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Aye we get strays and Ferrells coming around because they know we have 2 shes. both are spayed though, and they fight their corner well [even though they hate one another, they work together to oust any outcasts!]
 
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