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Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 158
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 11:36 am: | 
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I started taking a Telka III's shutter apart today for cleaning. It's odd, but I wasn't really having any trouble until I got to the rear lens element. The thing is seriously recessed and has no notches, so I can't use a lens wrench. I made a friction wrench out of a plastic eraser, but that isn't working either. It has to come out in order to get at the other side of it (where there is oil on the glass) and to get to the center lens element (more oil). Does anyone know how you are supposed to get that lens element out? |
Scott
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Username: Scott
Post Number: 159
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 01:48 pm: |
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If you can get the whole shutter off of the camera, then you might get a better grip on it. |
Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 159
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 09:28 am: |
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I'll give it a shot, but it is still going to be recessed, big time. WHat the hell were these guys thinking, putting the thing that deep in a hole and not putting notches in it for a lens wrench? |
Scott
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Username: Scott
Post Number: 160
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 01:18 pm: |
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In some of the simpler (cheaper) cameras of the 40s and 50s that I have repaired (both German and Japanese), certain components (like lens elements) were simply pressed into place. I assumed they have a special jig with a hand lever on the assembly line. That was faster and cheaper than cutting threads in each piece.
They were not meant to be taken apart. In fact, you can't take them apart without destroying the camera. |
Hanskerensky
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Username: Hanskerensky
Post Number: 106
Registered: 05-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 02:14 am: |
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There are some images of a Telka III repair visible on this site :
http://herlent.daniel.free.fr/reparation/telka_iii/index.html |
Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 160
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 12, 2011 - 08:32 am: |
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Too bad he doesn't how HOW that rear lens element came out. |
Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 163
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 01:10 pm: |
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Well, I finally got the rear lens element out. It was cross threaded. However, now I don't see how the center element comes out. It is set in a threaded ring that looks like it ought to just unscrew, but apparently there is more to it than that, because it won't budge. |
