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Walkersj
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Username: Walkersj
Post Number: 9
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 - 10:01 am: | 
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My recently acquired Flexaret 7 sometimes locks the wind on knob after firing the shutter. If you jab the shutter button a few times then it will eventually unlock. I guess it's some sort of timing issue with the interlocks. Anyone have any advice as to what to look for? Presumably the left hand side of the camera has to be removed to access the mechanism? Does the wind on knob or anything have to be removed? |
Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 135
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 - 11:23 am: |
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If you have to jab the shutter button a few times it sounds more like something is sticky in there and needs to be nudged so that would indicate a good cleaning is needed more than anything else and in the area of the shooting button, not the cranking wind mechanism. |
Walkersj
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Username: Walkersj
Post Number: 11
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 - 01:01 pm: |
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I would tend to agree that a CLA in that area is probably necessary. If anyone has any direct experience they could share I would be grateful, otherwise it's carefully peel off the leatherette time and look see. |
Walkersj
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Username: Walkersj
Post Number: 12
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 02:15 am: |
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Well it was an adjustment needed. There is a round push rod that pushes the latch for the wind knob and this barely pushed it far enough for its latch to operate when you pushed the shutter button. The rod had wound wire stops, like tightly coiled springs around the rod and you could adjust it by moving these on the rod. After that I had to bend the shutter lever a little because that latch tripped before the knob interlock, but it seems to work reliably now. |
