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David Nebenzahl
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:35 pm: | 
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I'd like to take the top off my new Zorki-5 for cleaning. Can't figure out how to get the wind lever off. There's a chrome ring on top that someone else said should be a right-hand thread, but I can't budge it. Tried rubber gloves, pliers protected by rubber, but no go. I'm squirting lacquer thinner in the gap to try to loosen it. Any suggestions? |
John Cribbin
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 12:44 pm: |
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David,
I've just dug out Maizenberg and the good or bad news depending on your point of view, is that removing the winding mech. is the hardest part of removing the top.
Anyway the great man sayeth, the ring can only be removed when the mech. is wound and in the great tradition of Soviet engineering can be either left or right thread!
Also the nut is very tight with limited area for grip (as you have found).
Now try and make sense of this direct quote "..cameras with the optical wedge located in the outer part have a nut with left hand thread, while cameras with the optical wedge located under the plate have a nut with right hand thread". But it also states to try both ways, so this may not be a guarantee.
My translation is, the later Zorki 6 shaped cameras with the screw on wedge, are left hand thread and the earlier body shape with the behind the top plate wedge, is right hand thread.
Hope this helps. Must get back on Beststuff.
John |
David Nebenzahl
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 11:07 pm: |
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Well, it's easy enough to get the wind lever off--if you remove the right damn part! I was trying to get off the wrong piece, the large chrome ring just above the wind lever, when what I needed to remove was the collar around the shutter release. On my camera, this is a left-hand thread. Not sure which type my camera is, since Maizenberg's description is hard to parse: on mine, the optical wedge screws into a plate behind the top.
By the way, the tool I ended up using for this was one of the "flexi-clamps" I got from Micro-Tools. The only trouble was that the collar was halfway between the 7/16" and 1/2" sizes, so I ended up opening up the smaller tool to fit. If one did this more than a few times, one might want to get an extra 7/16" clamp and drill it out to 15/32". |
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