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Kaqui
Tinkerer
Username: Kaqui
Post Number: 1
Registered: 04-2011
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 - 12:54 am: | 
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Hello everyone, first than all, I'm not english native speaker so I may misspell some words or something.
I'm new to camera collecting, in Chile its a bit difficult to find cameras at good prices, and I bought two Zenit 122 cameras at a good price, but one has problems with the rewind lever, its missing, but that's not my problem, because I can replace it with another one in order to make it work.
I was trying to take the screw out, but I pushed it inside the camera and the whole rewind shaft fell inside the film compartment. I had to dismantle all the camera in order to open the film compartment. I took the rewind shaft and tried to put it in the tubular hole where it was, but it doesn't fit. I observed the mechanism and noticed that it doesn't fit because the lock system was connected to the shaft from the inside, I think it was with pressure.
I need to know how to put the shaft back in its place in order to continue repairing it, the camera shutter works and everything, and I would like to use it, but I cant shot if I can't even wind the film into the spool and back to the canister.
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Finnegan
Tinkerer
Username: Finnegan
Post Number: 70
Registered: 09-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2011 - 10:44 am: |
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Oh, ok, you need to move the "thing" in the shaft out of the way with a thin jeweler's screwdriver while pushing the rewind shaft back in place. I don't have a Zenit but this is how I do it on other camera that work like that. |
Canuck_curt
Tinkerer
Username: Canuck_curt
Post Number: 37
Registered: 03-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2011 - 12:56 pm: |
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An easy way to reinsert the shaft is to gently file a small slant on one side of the shaft just beneath the threaded part where is widens out. As you reinsert the shaft, make sure this sloped side faces out toward the outside edge of your camera. There is a thin spring like wire that runs across the hole and catches this shoulder to open the camera back. Usually a slight filing will allow this spring to slide right past and allow thw shaft back in. Hope this helps, just don't get too carried away with the file. |
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