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Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 205
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 04:52 am: | 
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...when you have no front element to unscrew?
Just seeking clarification, I've cleaned and reassembled a Prontor before, and have all those nice Daniel Mitchell pages linked. However, I went in from the front by unscrewing the front element of the lens.
My Altix-V has a bayonet fit lens and, assuming the pics are good enough to tell me the lens is OK, I think I need to de-gunge the shutter if I'm going to use it more. It's currently really quite slow. I know that 2 seconds instead of 1 is only a stop over, well within film's latitude, but the flash sync doesn't work either so I think it's spanner time.
The big question is... Is the shutter attached by the front or the rear? There's a slotted ring at the back, and another one with two pinholes at the front (lens) end. I'm guessing maybe that one screws the mount onto the shutter, but if anyone has taken a Prontor off a camera with a bayonet-mounted lens I'd appreciate your thoughts.
Many thanks,
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Adrian
Tinkerer
Username: Adrian
Post Number: 206
Registered: 08-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 03:10 pm: |
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OK, I'll partially answer my own question. In short, don't try!
The mount on mine will not unscrew from the front and, in trying to remove the shutter as a whole, I've found that you (probably) need to fold back two tabs that are hidden by the leatherette to get the thing apart.
I've given up, and gone for the cheats way - just drenching the shutter in ronsonol and hoping that enough grease shifts to speed it up without lodging anywhere worse... It was that or defenestration!
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