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Adrian
Tinkerer
Username: Adrian
Post Number: 272
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 11, 2010 - 12:35 pm: | 
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I've just got the first roll back from my bank-breaking Vito C (£3) and to my annoyance there's definitely a frame spacing problem. The first dozen or so frames are fine, then it gets progressively worse until for the last few the negs look panoramic... There's also several missing frames, which I haven't found an excuse for yet as the shutter trips every time when I test it.
I think the problem is that the take-up spool is slack enough for its spindle to rotate inside it when there is drag on the outer part (the spool appears to turn on a separate spindle) as, when I got to the end of the roll, it just kept winding on and winding on. Luckily I opened it in a changing bag!
So... Does anyone have any idea on whether I can fix this? The chassis seems to be screwed or rivetted together from the front, and I've not dismantled anything to that extent before. Unfortunately the slot for the film does not allow me to see the inner spindle, or I'd try a bit of epoxy.
Any assistance you can offer would be very much appreciated!
Thank you,
Adrian
(incidentally, for habitues of both, I'm also posting this over on Rangefinder Forum) |
Adrian
Tinkerer
Username: Adrian
Post Number: 281
Registered: 08-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 04:03 pm: |
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Update: HAving run a scrap film through several times, the film now stops as expected at the end of the roll, and makes nasty noises as the sprockets turn under it, after the frame counter has counted 24. I won't know for sure until I run another film through, but it looks as though it just needed some exercise - probably been neglected for donkey's years! |
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