Synchro-Compur-X (Contaflex Super BC) service manual

[bernard_L]

I'm looking for the service manual in the title. I do have the service manual for the Contaflex Super B (non-TTL Selenium light meter); and that does not cover the internals of the shutter. I do have the service manual for the Synchro-compur of some Rollei camera, which proved useful in the overhaul of a Contaflex II.

But the Contaflex Super BC (CdS meter, TTL) has so many bells and whistles! and some of them are handled inside the shutter assembly itself. After dis-assembling the first two layers I see this (photo below) quite un-familiar and prefer to gather information before making an irreversible mistake. To be explicit, I'm striving to eliminate a very small amount of play in the optics, that degrades the images, and that my fingers can feel in the center element. See:

Ghost image with Contaflex

Made the first test of my second Contaflex (Super) body, bought last June. Some images show a ghost image, offset from the main image by a small amount. Most noticeable on pictures taken with the 85mm pro-tessar. Some pics with the same 85mm (and same body) do not show that problem. Still unsure...

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So: could someone please provide me the service manual for that specific shutter? Thank you for reading.

 

[Dan Daniel]

Not anything concrete to say. But the front of that shutter sure reminds me of a particular style used on some Rolleiflexes. #1110-019. Go to this and scroll down to section 7-1. It gives methods to set up for proper EV operation. No idea what is inside your shutter, but on the Rolleiflex this is a basic Synchro-Compur guts with an internal shutter release on the bottom, not the typical side shutter release tab. The Light Value planetary gear thing is all scabbed on.

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Well, the shutter number that your photo reminds me of is the 1110-019. I have no idea if this could be the basis for an automatic exposure system.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Dan, SCRIBD is a pirate site. Please don't send people to them. Here's what I think the OP needs:

https://archive.org/details/compur-shutter-repair-manual
Compur shutter repair manual. From the factory, this is the one to use.

As far as I know it is legal and the OP won't have to give archive.org a credit card number.

 

[OAPOli]

This shutter is in the manual linked by @Dan Fromm. Listed at page 48, diagram at page 108 for the "Contaflex super B"

 

[bernard_L]

@Dan Daniel , @Dan Fromm , @OAPOli
Thank you for the prompt responses. Indeed "my" shutter is there. Looks like the instructions of Messrs Deckel are not quite as detailed as those of Zeiss (for the camera proper) but the diagrams, perspective and cutaway will be very helpful. They did not have SolidWorks in 1963!! I do not intend to mess with the shutter itself. I just need to find some loose screw(s) in the linkage chain. I already eliminated a small amount of play at the shutter-body interface; now I want to find our why the middle element wiggles oh-so-slightly.