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Author Message   Monolith Tinkerer Username: Monolith Post Number: 4 Registered: 01-2011 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 01:03 pm:    Thanks for your reply. You are right, I took all the screws out - I understood Henry Taber so in the worst case everything falls out in a heap. But NOT everything fell out - only the aperture (yes, I understand the difference aperture/shutter). The shutter (except the blades, they fell out) is stuck in the lens barrel. I can see this shutter activation arm through a hole in the shutter mechanism and there is a part of the shutter unit behind it, probably being blocked by it. But I can move it only about 5 mm, which doesn't get it out of the way. Thanks for strengthening my belief that I can make it, but at the moment I have no idea HOW. Do you have a more detailed advice for me? Thanks Johannes