Prevent locked filters? @JVada posted about an issue he has involving a stuck filter that he can’t seem to break loose to remove. I didn’t want to hijack his topic, but it got me...

Basil Loc: New Mexico

@JVada posted about an issue he has involving a stuck filter that he can’t seem to break loose to remove. I didn’t want to hijack his topic, but it got me thinking, “is there anything that could be put on filter threads to minimise the potential for a filter getting stuck?

I’ve had some difficult filters in the past but I was always eventually able to get them off.

Just curious if anyone has any home remedies for treating filter threads or is that just not a good idea?

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Basil wrote:

@JVada posted about an issue he has involving a stuck filter that he can’t seem to break loose to remove. I didn’t want to hijack his topic, but it got me thinking, “is there anything that could be put on filter threads to minimise the potential for a filter getting stuck?

I’ve had some difficult filters in the past but I was always eventually able to get them off.

Just curious if anyone has any home remedies for treating filter threads or is that just not a good idea?

I just make sure I can defeat "stucktedness". I take no preventitive measures at all. I actually prefer that filters are extra securely attached !

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jim quist Loc: Missouri

I’m buying one of the those

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Basil wrote:

@JVada posted about an issue he has involving a stuck filter that he can’t seem to break loose to remove. I didn’t want to hijack his topic, but it got me thinking, “is there anything that could be put on filter threads to minimise the potential for a filter getting stuck?

I’ve had some difficult filters in the past but I was always eventually able to get them off.

Just curious if anyone has any home remedies for treating filter threads or is that just not a good idea?

Generous amounts of DW40.

How's that for hijacking.
Seriously though, put NOTHING on filter threads or lens threads, any treatment will cause many many issues down the road.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Paraffin has a very low vapor pressure and so will not evaporate and redeposit on other lens parts. Use a bristle paint pad rubbed across the block of paraffin. Use it to use to coat a thin film on the filter threads. I use this technique to coat inkjet photos to make them semi-waterproof... a drop of water will roll off even at a 45-degree tilted image.

jackpinoh Loc: Kettering, OH 45419

Basil wrote:

@JVada posted about an issue he has involving a stuck filter that he can’t seem to break loose to remove. I didn’t want to hijack his topic, but it got me thinking, “is there anything that could be put on filter threads to minimise the potential for a filter getting stuck?

I’ve had some difficult filters in the past but I was always eventually able to get them off.

Just curious if anyone has any home remedies for treating filter threads or is that just not a good idea?

I pack a large rubber band (the kind grocery stores put around bunches of vegetables). It always works to loosen my stuck filters.

agillot

Silicone , small amount

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Graphite. Or use "lead" from a pencil.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Hillman-Group-Graphite-Lubricant/dp/B0016N38TA/ref=sr_1_5?crid=34C4AKJZQLBRK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oSzT0NKoRz-m2NRmcMpt9WnWjOm2-rf6vJ4xQqsS0RnxPTa6DlEvZnvvbhp5-l0nRFssJd33w1wNjv0YvOY7Ap8zP1OEi8jftkqyjb-DxGbOoQOEFEg8ZSgZ9k75n50l22KGsMt37e6BjiYAQ9W5kn5iwqTAaqADMWQ7LTtIv5WEMzK2OV_-anmLVBfQyCtSbVF3cZ756u2HjSMdhPanMi9vnvhc6yilgq-A5Kwc4IHTD0c8aIQzSkdIlbXUliFo1ofXSRqpB5GhITnqZyFCCDG8FrXoSKMZ2FgX3QEnntU.GPkSXWLV_5SiF8oVxQ48uC3vyCupUVnCepW7vOOzYIs&dib_tag=se&keywords=graphite&qid=1708954339&sprefix=graphite%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-5

redtooth

Use nose oil from around your nose .

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Don’t screw them the hell so tight! Stop twisting when you get resistance in your turning.

Stan

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

Basil wrote:

@JVada posted about an issue he has involving a stuck filter that he can’t seem to break loose to remove. I didn’t want to hijack his topic, but it got me thinking, “is there anything that could be put on filter threads to minimise the potential for a filter getting stuck?

I’ve had some difficult filters in the past but I was always eventually able to get them off.

Just curious if anyone has any home remedies for treating filter threads or is that just not a good idea?

1. Never use silicone. If you contaminate the lens it is very difficult to remove.
2. Do NOT use any liquid lubricants
3. if you wish to lubricate use (with a toothpick) the tiniest amount of a dry lubricant on the filter thread. If any of this dust gets on the lens surface, it can be blown off or taken off with lens cleaning tissue.

Basil Loc: New Mexico

StanMac wrote:

Don’t screw them the hell so tight! Stop twisting when you get resistance in your turning.

Stan

Yeah, that's good advice of course.

Basil Loc: New Mexico

DaveyDitzer wrote:

1. Never use silicone. If you contaminate the lens it is very difficult to remove.
2. Do NOT use any liquid lubricants
3. if you wish to lubricate use (with a toothpick) the tiniest amount of a dry lubricant on the filter thread. If any of this dust gets on the lens surface, it can be blown off or taken off with lens cleaning tissue.

Something like dry graphite?

By the way, these days most of my filters are Maven Magnetic filters, but the filter holders still have to screw on.

MJPerini

Graphite from a pencil in small amounts should be safe, it is non volatile, and contains nothing that can spread.
Also better filters have brass mounts brass is somewhat self lubricating, cheap filters use aluminum which is notorious for 'galling' and self welding (because of corrosion)

Ner125 Loc: Bradenton, FL

In the old days when cameras had thin leather straps instead of today’s wide mesh straps, you could wrap the strap around the filter and get the same result as the tool shown above.