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     Lrsnrl Tinkerer Username: Lrsnrl Post Number: 32 Registered: 02-2010 Rating: N/A |
Just about every leaf shutter camera will have this problem. These cameras have been sitting on a shelf for the last thirty or forty years and in that time the lubricants inside the camera have seeped into the shutter blades causing them to stick together. Flood cleaning with a solvent as you have done seems to work but those who use this method use Ronsonol (cigarette lighter fluid) but sometimes this works but care must be taken to use enough fluid to wash out all of the old oil. I tried this method and it did not work out that well. It is best to disassemble the entire shutter mechinism and clean the blades AND the rest of the parts of the shutter. |