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Miguelcascais
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Username: Miguelcascais
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 02:55 pm: | 
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Hello Everyone:
I am a starter fighting against a Rolleyflex T (and I am loosing). Before I did only completely disassemble a Voigtlaender Bessa II and I did it, but this one is harder. I need to access the shutter but I can’t remove the front panel – see photo attached. It is stuck with the release button and the flash connector. Nothing seems to help: the tools I bought from Microtools, the Repair manual I downloaded, the Tomosy book with fundamental techniques…
Do I need special tools? Is there any detailed information about this in some site or some book…
Thanks for your help.
Miguel Cascais
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Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 712
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 08:11 pm: |
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The T is the most difficult of the Rolleis to open up.
Here is a sketch of the nasty front panel details... you have to do battle with it to get it apart. |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 713
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 08:12 pm: |
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Yours has a Carl Zeiss Jena lens!!!??? How did that happen? I've never seen one of those on a T before. |
Miguelcascais
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Username: Miguelcascais
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 11:42 pm: |
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Thank you very much!!!
I don’t have a tool to reach the ring inside the collar, but I will buy one today!!
I have no idea why I have that lens, but there is a possible explanation: the first Rolley T was the number 2,100,000. This one is the 20th camera. It might have something to do with that... or a previous owner just changed it...
Thanks again, I was about to give up.
Miguel |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 714
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 08:17 am: |
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Very cool; I have the 196th Rollei 2.8A ... it has a Jena lens, but they were doing that back in 1950. By the time the T came along, I thought those ties had been well broken. |
