EMERGENCY Polarizer stuck on lens problem

Way cool dude...

Good deal! Have a great trip....

We demand some photos!!!!

Billginthekeys wrote in post #3373660
well guys good news. i got to anchorage, and went to the local service center since i had a long morning before i got on the ship. They got the filter off for me and im currently on the ship watching the most beautiful mountains go by.

Glad to hear it. How did they do it? With a filter wrench?

I'm curoius how they did it too. Glad to hear you can enjoy the rest of your trip without having to worry about this.

That makes three of us. Are you going to keep us in suspense?

Hey Billy i am glad you got it off. Whats Alaska like. It is 90 and humid here. I hope you have an awesome trip. I cant wait to see your photos. If you have some down time e mail me a shot. Smooth sailing. Tim

I have a B+W CPL that ALWAYS gets stuck on the UV filter I have on the lens.

A couple days ago, when I had to shoot through glass, I used it. It got stuck as usual. My typical solution is a light tap on my granite kitchen countertop. A few taps, and it dislodges.

However that day, it refused to dislodge. I tapped it a little harder...CRACK!@# R.I.P. UV Filter...

I cleared out the glass from the cracked UV Filter, and tried some more. It's still stuck! I'll try the freezer trick next.

This is annoying...

It manages to always get stuck...and I don't screw it in hard at all...

I had this happen. What I did was use my headphone cable. Wrapped it around the polarizer and used it as a wrench/lasso. Worked like a charm

top tip; BEFORE you put any filter on, try a little vaseline, copper grease, baby lotion, washing up liquid, hand cream, on the threads. Anything to give you a shot at getting the thing back off. The only thing more prone to galling than alumimium/aluminium, is stainless/stainless. You could try holding the lens, filter down, on some ice cubes for a couple of minutes. You want to "shrink" just the filter threads, not the lens barrelk threads aswell. Might work...

funkybuddha wrote in post #3377665
I had this happen. What I did was use my headphone cable. Wrapped it around the polarizer and used it as a wrench/lasso. Worked like a charm

Google sent me to this tread and the headphone cable trick worked like a charm. I've been using rubber bands, rubber gloves, raging force and excessively dirty language for a couple of days already. Thank you funkybuddha!

Fotofanten wrote in post #12219667
Google sent me to this tread and the headphone cable trick worked like a charm. I've been using rubber bands, rubber gloves, raging force and excessively dirty language for a couple of days already. Thank you funkybuddha!

You know what is a surprisingly common problem (also with jar lids etc)? People crushing and de-forming it a little when trying to grab it so tightly to twist it. Often it just takes a gentle hand. Not in all cases of course, but quite a lot.