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Author Message   Glenn Tinkerer Username: Glenn Post Number: 301 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 10:22 am:    Tighten one of the set screws. Cock the shutter and rotate the dial fully clockwise. You should now have set the speed to 1/1000. Is this speed aligned with the datum? If not, loosen the tightened set screw and align dial. Release shutter and recock, rotate dial anticlockwise and then clockwise, back to 1/1000. Does the 1/1000 still align with the datum when it reaches the stop? If the 1/1000 mark has passed the datum in a clockwise direction, realign the !/1000 with the datum. When all is aligned, tighten the set screws. Finally rotate the dial anticlockwise and check that the lower speeds coincide with the datum. On some of these cameras, the dial engraving is not very accurately spaced. You may find that a little 'fine tuning' of the dial position will even out the spacing and reduce the appearance of the non-aligned slow speeds. Do not start messing about with blind tensions, until you have cleaned all the crap out of the shutter mechanism and fired the shutter for the equivalent of five or six 36 exp films. These cameras like use, so loosen up the mechanism and you may find the second blind will work more normally.