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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3174683" data-attributes="member: 109211">Hi HNSo sorrry to hear your bad news, you must have been devastated.And you dropped it only 1 metre while taking off your hat? I never imagined you as only 1 metre tall, but perhaps those fierce winds in Kirkene stop the local people from growing any taller :-OSeriously, I hope you get it fixed soon.Its hard to tell from the pics exactly what has happened but I agree with others that the bridge looks like metal and that one of the pale areas shows a shape of the break that doesn't look right. I wonder if Steve C is right and it was a faulty casting.This incident reminds me of the time my wife dropped her Canon 100 macro lens onto a tiled floor in France. The lens had been dropped occasionaly onto carpet and outside onto grassy surfaces from much higher and always survived OK. But the drop onto the tiled floor from less than the height of a low bed ruined the lens as it would not focus.All best wishes for a happy outcome.Lee</blockquote>