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Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 94
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 03:05 pm: | 
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I was just sent a Rollei XF 35 by a guy who says another repairman had it for over a year and couldn't figure out why the meter didn't work. I think I discovered the problem.
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Rob60202
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Username: Rob60202
Post Number: 1
Registered: 09-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 07:09 pm: |
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Do you happen to know how easily (or not) the dial for counting film frames can be repaired? I hardly got to use my wonderful Rollei XF35 and a few years after purchase, the dial simply stopped advancing. Let me know what you think, please. And thanks! |
Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 95
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 11:18 am: |
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Rob, there's a chance that is going to be a simple repair. Open the back of the camera. There is a groove running around the opening that the top and bottom edges of the film door will fit into; it's where the light seal strips go. At the top of the opening should be a little silver nub showing through a break in the light seal. It corresponds to a little spur on the edge of the film door that presses against it when it is closed. If you can't easily see it, or if something has happened to the spur on the film door edge, that's the problem. It is supposed to come out of its hole and reset the film counter when you open the film loading door. It has probably gotten stuck by a poorly installed light seal strip or -- just possibly -- the spur has been ground off of the edge of the film loading door (yeah, I know, but I've seen dumber things). To fix that, you'd either open the top of the camera and pick the crud out of that hole (if the little nub isn't showing) or replace the film door (if something has happened to the spur).
It could also be the usual thing that causes 90% of all the problems with vintage cameras -- 50-year-old dried-up oil and crud stuck throughout the guts of the camera. A CLA would fix that. Basically, you scrub everything down with lighter fluid and then flush the crud out with fresh lighter fluid. When you are cleaning cameras with lighter fluid, be REALLY sure to remove the battery first! |
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