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Hobbes
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Username: Hobbes
Post Number: 18
Registered: 02-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 09:46 am: | 
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I have a Seiko shutter with sluggish slow speeds. The shutter is on an 80mm f2.8 Mamiya TLR lens set that came off of a C33 camera.
I tried putting some lighter fluid on the slow speed governor and working the mechanism, but after some period of idleness the sluggishness returns.
What I would like to do is remove the slow speed retard mechanism for a complete immersion in lighter fluid, but I read in Ed Romney's Basic Training in Camera Repair that the "chassis" of the slow speed governor on this shutter is "not held together and you can let all the gears fall out, if you remove it carelessly."
Has anyone worked on this shutter? How serious is the risk that Romney warns of?
Thanks,
Rob |
Lrsnrl
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Username: Lrsnrl
Post Number: 18
Registered: 02-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 09:42 pm: |
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I did have a Seikosha SVL governor come apart
on me when I accidentally dropped it. Fortunatly
I had taken pictures of it before it fell apart.
It wasn't hard to get back together except the
springs had to be tensioned properly before ass-
embly.
Maybe using one of those spring loaded paper
clips to hold it together while you are soaking
it would be a good idea. |
Hobbes
Tinkerer
Username: Hobbes
Post Number: 19
Registered: 02-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 09:53 pm: |
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Good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
Rob |
Brcamera
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Username: Brcamera
Post Number: 112
Registered: 08-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 12, 2011 - 09:38 am: |
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The slow speeds escapement in the Seiko #0 shutter used on Mamiya TLR cameras is indeed fastened together so it can be removed and cleaned without it falling apart as long as you don't subject it to extreme trauma.. |
Hobbes
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Username: Hobbes
Post Number: 20
Registered: 02-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 12, 2011 - 12:42 pm: |
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I got up the courage to remove it last night, and it did not cause me any problems.
Thanks for all the responses.
Rob |
