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     Graywolf Tinkerer Username: Graywolf Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2012 Rating: N/A |
The Yashicamat that I was asking about the crank problem on, has a shutter cocking problem, that I was trying to get into the camera to fix when I discovered I could not get the crank off. What is happening is that when you wind the film, and crank back to cock the shutter, the shutter does not cock. That seems like a shutter problem at first, BUT! If the lenses are racked out to focus closer than about 10 feet, the shutter does cock. That makes me think it is a linkage problem, but I am not sure about that. It has been decades since I last worked on a TLR, and I was not an expert back then. So while I am waiting on a replacement crank and a recover kit (this one has the Vulcanite covering, so for sure has to be replaced, I like this camera a lot, so it is worthwhile fully restoring it to me), I thought I would see if anyone can point me in the right direction towards fixing this problem. |