Zeiss Planar 2/45 fungus repair guidance

[sxlorenz]

Hi, this is my first time here so be easy on me please

I recently got a G1 together with a 2/45 from Japan but unfortunately the lens has quite some mold.
I'm from germany and the only guy loccal to me that could've repaired this with a reasonable price recently passed away so I'm kinda on my own. Cheapest I could get here would be around 200-300€ which is way out of budget for this lens.

I have cleaned one or two lenses in the past but they were about a tenth of the price of this one and fully manual unlike the Zeiss lens which, suprise, is built by Zeiss who I assume doesn't really build the simplest lenses so this is probably somewhat out of my comfort zone.
I'm mainly just looking for some advice on these Lenses. If anyone has experience or even just pictures of the inside - whatever, send it my way, I'm grateful for eveything since I can't find anything on the web about repairing these, seems like they don't go bad that often

 

[dirbel]

The lens is not really complex. The lens block is more or lens self contained. The lens housing is the part that has the AF mechanics and is calibrated for infinity.
Here are instructions how to remove the lens block from the housing:

Funleader Contax G45 F2 to Leica M Conversion

The optical part of the Contax G45 F2 to Leica M Lens Conversion is the original Contax optical lens groups that we collected on the market. It is not an optical reproduction and fully displays high resolution and beautiful colors that Contax 45mm F2 Carl Zeiss Planar T* lens should have.

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Only the first step, but maybe it helps.

 

[sxlorenz]

Thanks, this is definitely some starting point! I'm still on the edge if I want to tackle this. I think I'll see how the pictures turn out, shooting a roll of ColorPlus right now.