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Juan Carlos
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 04:59 am: | 
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Hello, I´m a fan of classic cameras and I have a Foth-Flex with focal plane shutter. The problem is that the cloth of shutter are very bad and I´m thinkin to remove it and replace. Do anybody know a shop to sell this shutter cloth or a type of cloth to use for this. I have experience in shutter repair but never replace the cloth at all. (Sorry for my bad english). Thanks and I wait your answer.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lora |
BrianShaw
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 08:00 am: |
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Check this site: www.micro-tools.com/
Please post your progress/success/challenges. Good Luck! |
Jon Goodman
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 08:07 am: |
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Your English is excellent, Juan. I have shutter cloth and shutter ribbons which will work on Leica or Leica copy cameras. Do you think they would work on the Foth-Flex? Tambien, puedo hablar en el Espanol si es mas facil...puedo leer en el Portugues, pero no lo hablo. (for others here, I said "also, I can speak in Spanish if it is easier...I can read in Portuguese, but I do not speak it)
Juan, my e:mail is [email protected]
Jon |
Wim Abbeloos
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:32 am: |
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I have a foth-flex as well. However, the shutter release lever or button or whatever it is seems to be missing. Can anybody tell me what it should look like? Not to much info available on it... |
Juan Carlos Gonzalez
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 06:50 pm: |
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Hello again, Thanks for your answer, I find the shutter curtain material in micro-tools web but I need a 60mm x 300mm more or less (the foth-flex have a focal plane shutter with vertical curtains in 6x6 film) and it´s difficult to adapter this measures but i´m thinkin now about this.
Hello Wim Abbleloos, when I disassemble the camera I take some photos and send you by email, specially for shutter release and i explain you ,as I know, how it´s work.
About Jon Goodman, thanks but these cameras(Leica and Leica copy) use 35mm film and the curtains is small than the foth-flex need.
Thans again and I tell you my advances. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lora. |
Jon Goodman
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 07:05 pm: |
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Hello, Juan.
I can sell you a piece 60mm x 300mm...that is no problem. Please measure your curtains and tell me what size you need.
Best regards,
Jon |
Glenn Middleton
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 05:01 am: |
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I think it worth mentioning that the ever helpful Jon Goodman can supply most of his products to the size you require. When you want larger sizes this not only works out cheaper - you buy what you need and not some over priced bulk supply - his service is superb also.
People who go out of their way to support the 'hobbyist' are few and far between these days, so I feel they deserve my support. To illustrate the problem - I know a firm that can supply any type of screw found in 'classic cameras',only trouble is that they come in a box of 5000/10,000 at a suitable cost! My 'Can you supply a sample of 12 please?' routine will wear thin eventually. I certainly do not want 9,988 screws sitting on my shelf, even if I could afford them. In case anybody suggests it, I do not want to go into the small fastener business! |
