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CJ
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 08:40 pm: | 
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Hello All,
I'm new to tinkering with classic cameras, and I have a Konica Auto S2 that has a sluggish timer and an aperture that appears to be stuck at f/16.
I've read the excellent page, (Kar Yan Mak's S1.6 Repair Adventure) but I'm not clear on how to go in through the front of the lens to clean the aperture leaves. Can anybody offer any advice? At the top of Kar Yan's S1.6 page, there a picture of the camera with what appers to be the front lens element taken out...but I can't figure out how this was done--the bezel that reads "Konica...Hexanon...etc." is still in place.
Also, please clarify: What does 'right handed', 'left handed' screw mount mean? Does 'right handed' mean that to UNscrew something, it involves a left-handed turn?
Thanks,
-CJ |
M Currie
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 07:07 am: |
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Ordinary screws are right-handed, meaning that as you face the screw's head, you screw clockwise to tighten, couterclockwise to loosen. A left-handed screw is the reverse of this, so to UNscrew it you would go clockwise. |
rick oleson
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 07:11 am: |
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I have some notes on the S2; email me if you'd like a copy.
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WernerJB
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 07:26 am: |
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You are right in your last assumption.
Yes, indeed Kar Yan Mak's "Repair Adventure" is very informative and has helped me a lot when I started tinkering! What worries you (the "bezel" installed without the front element of the lens) was probably put back for the photo to give you an impression of how things go together. I guess if you do not understand technical expressions, more pictures will perhaps help, so take a look at Mick Feuerbacher's repair tips on the S & S2 (he calls his tinkering an "overhaul")elsewhere on the net (on Japanese websites there are also excellent pics illustrating difficult tasks, texts are somewhat confusing if translated by autotranslation), just follow what you see,and trust your intuition, it probably offers the best advice there is. Learning by doing, that is what makes life worth living. |
CJ
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 10:25 am: |
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Ok,
Upon looking more closely at the front of the lens, and specifically the shiny ring, it appears that I'm going to need to purchase a lens/ring spanner from microtools.com. The ring appears to have to indentations on it that appear to be made for this kind of tool. Is that a correct assumption?
-CJ |
rick oleson
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 11:14 am: |
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You will need a spanner for the front retaining ring. You can either buy one or make one, but if you don't have a standard one already I'd go ahead and buy one, it will be handy in the future.
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