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I recently got a Cooke Kinetal 17.5mm lens and already had an Arri Standard TS adapter that came with an ACL kit I bought a few years ago. I never had a chance to actually use the adapter until now. The lens does fit the adapter, but I’m having quite a bit of trouble with the mounting/unmounting process. Getting the lens back out is almost impossible unless I loosen the small screws connected to the 3 retaining pins/tabs that hold the lens in place. I’ve already spoken to Gregg McPherson about this and he’s been very helpful, but I figured I’d ask here as well in case someone has run into the same issue before or knows exactly what usually causes/fixes this. At the moment I’ve removed the lens, carefully disassembled the adapter a bit, and taken some photos of the mechanism which I’ll attach below. One thing I completely overlooked at first was the locking ring and the fact that it affects the operation of the 3 retaining tabs. The ring itself also feels pretty stiff, including when I tried removing it. My current guess is that the adapter probably has old dried grease and possibly not enough proper lubrication left for the mechanism to function smoothly anymore, but I’d really appreciate any thoughts from people more experienced with these adapters.

Iam willing to sell my Eclair acl s16mm camera and lots of extra's. The package contains: * Eclair acl s16mm configured by Les Bosher * 2* 400ft mags * multiorientatable viewfinder * 2 small batteries whcih will run over hours and hours even on 75 fps * battery charger * crystal sync motor (24fps 25fps 50fps 75 fps) * pistol handheld grip with start button * CA Mount * Arri st. Mount * Pl MOUNT * cooke kinetal 17.5 mm t2.0 * cooke kinetal 25mm t2 * A Hardcover CASE for 2 mags the camera, batteries and lenses (and room for some more stuff..) The camera is recently checked by Edwin Schouten (etkon.com) and everything is fluently working and in perfect condition, I shot kilometers of film on it and never had any problems. I will sell the whole package for 2200 euro excluding shipping cost. I live in Amsterdam, and if you have any good reasonable offer just give me a pm. I will put the camera and lenses up for auction on ebay in two weeks. This weekend I will photograph the whole package... If you already want some nice on set photos of this camera just pm me!