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Altersaddle
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Username: Altersaddle

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Registered: 01-2011

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Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 09:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I come here under the full understanding that Kowa SLRs are the bane of camera repairmen everywhere.

I didn't know that when I started, though, and I have already unstuck the shutter, reset the linkages, and gleefully re-assembled my new-to-me Kowa seT only to find that I can't set the shutter speed.

The plate that covers the shutter and also sets the speed is missing a pin. Does anyone have access to such a camera, who could measure it?

I have a metal lathe and am fully capable of fabricating a new one, but I don't know how long to make it and wish to save many trial-and-error errors.

Here's what I'm talking about:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_guDj_YJGWn0/TUeSMoU11AI/AAAAAAAAB4w/LjJzyFjveJI/s400/DSC00 085.JPG

...screwdriver pointing out the location of the missing pin.
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Altersaddle
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Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - 12:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Found it!

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_guDj_YJGWn0/TUmCHDTVYSI/AAAAAAAAB6w/PsXfnhLI1X0/s640/DSC00 086.JPG

It was stuck in the grease of the focusing ring. It's lucky that the aperture was sticky or else I would never have been in there.

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