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Helens
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Username: Helens
Post Number: 16
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 04, 2007 - 02:26 am: | 
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Does anybody know how to remove the chromed stopdown button at 5 o'clock to the lens (viewed from the front) on the body of the Miranda Sensomat RE? I know that the leatherette in its centre can be picked off to reveal a screw, but I cannot get it to undo. I've a working RE with this button missing (leaving a rather painful-to-the-finger needlelike component as the only thing to press), and a donor camera with a faulty shutter (conversely, I suppose I could look into fixing the shutter of the donor, which is in magnificent cosmetic condition, if anybody has any handy hints! It's suffering from capping/tapering at fast speeds and intermittent hanging at slow speeds).
Thanks in advance,
Helen |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 290
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 04, 2007 - 03:36 pm: |
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Hi Helen:
I don't recall the details of the button itself, but if you peel back the leatherette about an inch from the lens mount side, you can remove 2 screws and the entire panel comes off with the button attached. Maybe it will become more obvious from that point.
The other camera sounds like it needs a good cleaning... unfortunately Mirandas are a bit sensitive to dirt. The slow speed escapement is easily accessible under the baseplate (next to the tripod socket), and you may be able to get at the curtain spindles for cleaning by removing the access panels on both sides of the lens mount. Once you have it all as clean as you can get it, you may be able to perk it up by increasing the tension a little on both curtains... this is also under the baseplate, next to the battery box. |
Helens
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Username: Helens
Post Number: 17
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - 02:28 pm: |
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Rick,
Thanks very much indeed for the helpful pointers - I'll give it a go when time permits and the button swapping sounds exactly what I need to do. I'd been considering swapping the pristine top plate parts onto my "second best, but most working" Sensomat RE (well, if I ever managed to unscrew the winder hub on ANY of 'em - they resist every rubber tool I try!) but then I realised that this pretty one with the tired shutter is slightly earlier production - and to my surprise, it has a noticeably shallower top plate with different contours where it meets the chassis to every other example of the Sensomat RE I've seen. Apparently they changed the chassis casting - the early one even has its strap lugs mounted higher. |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 293
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - 08:19 pm: |
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Instead of a rubber tool, get a wooden dowel (even better, one of those screwdrivers that you can pull the shaft out of the handle - toss the shaft, keep the handle) and get some double-sided foam adhesive tape. Stick a piece of tape on the end of the dowel/handle, stick that onto the winder hub and it will unscrew without a fight. |
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