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Doug
Tinkerer
Username: Doug
Post Number: 14
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 08:01 pm: | 
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Well about a year ago I bought a Yashica Lynx 5000 with a bad shutter. By the time I was done with it, I had a pile of parts. Well a couple of months ago I picked up another one with a very stiff aperture ring, non functioning rangefinder and a dead meter. It has what appears to be a good shutter that sounds appropriate at all speeds. I freed up the rangefinder that was frozen stiff in one position, took apart the front of the camera to clean the aperture ring and clean all the contacts for the meter and last but not least, swapped out the meter with the one from my first camera. I had to splice in extensions on the connecting wiring and it all actually works! In my case it took two to make one. |
Glenn
Tinkerer
Username: Glenn
Post Number: 492
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 10:49 am: |
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Over the years I think I have purchased four cameras, just to work out a stripdown procedure so that I could get a cosmetically mint example working properly. I would rather 'experiment' on a cheap broken heap, finding as you found out that the heap invariably supplies some useful spares, that you originally did not realise you would need. |
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