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Author Message   Wonloo Tinkerer Username: Wonloo Post Number: 19 Registered: 07-2010 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 06:21 pm:    Tobias, you already went far enough. The following steps may help: 1) Take the swing arm in the center of pic 3 out. Put some naphtha (lighter fuel) in the axle and try to rotate it back and forth to free it up. Don't force it. After it is free, give it a pin-drop of oil. Here is one of the few places that you can use oil on a camera. Don't do that on the shutter. 2) Take out the small pulley connected to the swing arm by the removing the big screw. The swing arm pushes the pulley to move the lens board in and out to adjust the focus. Clean it well too. Be careful with the two small springs pushing the swing arm. 3) Use naphtha to clean up the harden grease on the rails on both sides. You can pull and push the lens board to help. After they are free, apply some new grease. I use white grease and it seems to work well. This should get you going with the lens board. Ikoflex is a very nice camera. Its Tessa lens takes very share pictures if you adjust the focus right.