IWS focusing help/advice

[Elphiel]

No the internal focus tube is inserted directly into the front lens housing and should move free. But the room is very tight. So if one tries to pull it out by grabbing just on side, it can easily cant. So try to push the focus lens tube against the housing all around, to get it loose. But don't try to pull it by force with tools or push it from the other side, by removing the small lens or red screw. This way it will cant itself even more.

@Peter: Hehe i was pretty sure you know it right with your great amount of knowledge about these items. But my opinion is that information should be shared as there are not many people around who could repair these items nowadays. It would be sad seeing items like these ending up in trash just because informations to repair or restore them is nowhere available. My own IWS for example i got years ago in complete broken condition from Greece, with lots of destroyed glass and bend metal. With no good source of infos available on the internet, and the only manuals i found in shops that would no export to Germany or atleast not for ridiculous high prices, I had do repair it completely with try and error. Thats why i try to spread my knowledge as good as possible.

But i can also fully understand your fear about inexperienced people destroying these rare pieces of equipment just out of curiosity.

[CINDERS]

Thing is chaps most tinkerer's pull stuff apart without consultation in the end they get it out of sequence or end up with a few screws left over after assembly (if so why is it always the one right in the middle inside?) like how many MkIII bottom fore woods have been wrecked because bubba did not take it off first, instead they undid the butt bolt first, another is leavering the fore woods from the front instead of tapping down from the top rear either side of the receiver....!
Read, Digest, Ask then start your job saves grief, the only thing I will add is I agree with Peter in a sense keeping to the KISS principal but if the experience never gets to paper or in this case threads then no one will be any the wiser it is a credit to those that share their hard won experience free of charge I for one am eternally grateful, then the flip side are those that do not share and take it to the grave.........! Then we all lose.