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Jimedge
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Username: Jimedge
Post Number: 3
Registered: 02-2013
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 05, 2013 - 02:45 pm: | 
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can anyone help with advice or instructions on how to free up the focussing on a newly acquired Contaflex Rapid? The camera is in fair to good cosmetic condition but the shutter/aperture mechanism appears to work perfectly with a good clean and slick action which is unusual with Contaflex cameras, so I would like to use it rather than sit it on a shelf. Focussing is near impossible as it incredibly stiff though still moveable. |
Fidji
Tinkerer
Username: Fidji
Post Number: 52
Registered: 12-2011
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 06, 2013 - 01:41 am: |
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The rear focusing ring type contaflex, have a small gap between the black ring and the camera body. Usually, on a well used one, there is fluff, muck and the worst of all, sand filling that gap.
If you clean it out with wooden cocktail sticks and Q Tips with the cotton pulled out to a point and dampened with lighter fuel, you may find it will eventually loosen up. |
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