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Kkl122002
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Username: Kkl122002
Post Number: 55
Registered: 05-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 - 09:39 am: | 
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I recently lubricated a Leica IIIB 's slow speed mechanism and some whel parts with some valve oil. However, there is a bad smell of the valve oil remained inside, and it also happens with some of my camera's leaf shutter.
Does any brothers know how to remove these smells?
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Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 415
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 - 11:40 am: |
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Wash out the valve oil and use a good quality, smell free oil! There are many low odour or odour free cheap lubricants around, smell free does not equate to 'expensive'. Many of the more ripe lubricants contain additives that are of no benefit to camera lubrication - so why bother to use them? I certainly do not want my Leicas smelling like the engine bay of my truck, the wife would banish them from the home! |
Paul_ron
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Username: Paul_ron
Post Number: 120
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 04:31 pm: |
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WAsh out the smelly lube n go to your local music store n ask for valve oil, not car valve oil. It;'s the valve oil used on brass musical instruments like trumpets n French Horns... it has no smell. Also it's the same stuff sold by camera repair shops as NyOil. NewYorkOil is distributed out of Queens NY, thus the name NyOil, AKA Watch oil used by jewlers on fine mechanical clocks n watches. |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 679
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 04:56 pm: |
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Just one more guess: if you can smell the oil, I expect you used way too much of it. |
