    
Scott
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 10:45 am: | 
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I've got a nice Minolta AL that has a confounding winding problem. Please advise if you've seen this problem before.
I've got the whole lens assembly and the bottom cover off of the camera. There's a geared wheel under the bottom cover (not directly under the axel of the wind-on lever) that has two pins 180 degrees apart. It looks like this is meant to rotate exactly 180 degrees each time the film is wound one frame. On mine it seems to be rotating a bit more than 180 degrees each time, which puts the whole "cycle" out of sync somehow.
These two pins on the rotating geared wheel are what cock the shutter, with a kind of cam motion. The spring-loaded plate that actually cocks the shutter slides back and forth laterally, "riding" on these pins. There are also two holes in this geared wheel, to allow the downward travel of the shutter release.
The problem is that after winding with the winding (wind-on) lever, that geared wheel comes to rest at a position that does not allow the full downward travel of the shutter release (and also does not allow for the full cocking of the shutter). Or, more correctly, it DOES reach such a position, but only every 9 (or was is 11?) strokes of the wind-and-release cycle. I can turn this geared wheel by hand to a different position, but still it remains out of sync; rotating too many degrees with each wind-on crank of the lever
Any tips on how to re-set this gearing?
thanks! --scott |
