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Author Message   Scott Tinkerer Username: Scott Post Number: 28 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 12:03 am:    I have overhauled a couple of those old PaX/Yamato rangefinders and viewfinder cameras. The focus was seized on both, which required a complete dissassembly and cleaning away old lube and re-lubing with new grease. I tried naptha and acetone, before finding out that strong alcohol is the only thing that will loosed that type of grease. But the re-wind spindle? Not much grease to seize there. Maybe it is metallic corrosion/oxidation between the case and the axel?