What did you fix today? (part 2)

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The infamous Canon A-1 shutter squeak!
 

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Used a mallet to hammer the drop bed of an Anniversary Speed Graphic back into alignment after it took a tumble into a muddy ditch (with me attached to it) earlier this month.

Luckily the mud didn't get into the front shutter, but the camera needed a good wash after that.
And the Kalart RF was out of whack as well.
 

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Ahh good old times when cameras could be washed and still worked!

My Oly 35 RC took a dive on Hawaii and I was able to bring the mechanics back to life after taking it apart and cleaning thoroughly, but electronics are obviously gone forever.
 

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The only mud that didn't wash off was the mud that splashed over my dignity. Must've been quite a sight seeing me step sideways and flop over into this ditch

Disassembled and CLA'd a Reflecta TLR over the last couple of days. The problem was mainly hardened grease in the focus helical and haze in both lenses.
Ready to go once more.
 

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Oh well, happened to all of us, right? I remember I dropped my Ricoh XR7 three times on stone pavement right from my hands. Didn't even break. Made me wonder if that plastic is actually plastic or not

Replaced the prism of my friend's OM-2 last night. Had a nasty separation going on, sadly typical for basic OM-1 and OM-2 models





Luckily never encountered these on OM-2S or OM-4, removing the top cover on those two cameras are much more complex. Especially OM-4.
 

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Likely coating corrosion due to foam-padding deterioration.

There is much mour such padding at cameras than the back-door light seals and mirror bumbers, but typically overlooked.
 

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Yes, I have serviced enough OM-1/2 to know what is the cause. Which is also evident on top photo - white mold on foam is the culprit.
 

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Nice, I'm looking to add a Cineflex (arriflex 35mm copy) to my collection at some point.

Cleaned the haze out of 3 lenses and freed up one shutter on some cameras;
-An unknown 9x12 with a Steinheil Doppel-Anastigmat "Unofocal" lens. Having recently serviced another Doppel-Anastigmat, I knew they consist of 4 air-spaced elements that all simply unscrew for cleaning.
-An Agfa Billy Record with a stuck shutter and some cheapish triplet lens.
-A K.W. Patent Etui in 6.5x9

All cleaned up nicely and are ready to go once I had dug out a couple of roll film adapters for them.
 

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Finally got to grips with cnc basics and have just finished making the 3rd lensboard for my Kodak Precision A enlarger.

1st one was for my enlarging Ektar with a 39.5mm thread. It came with a jam nut so no problem. No jam nut for my 39mm threaded lenses and the 55mm to 39mm step down ring I planned on using as a jam nut is too thick to allow mounting to the enlarger. Instead I used Sugru to glue the filter ring to the bottom side of the lensboard. After a 2 day cure it seems plenty strong enough to hold a lens.

The 3rd was for a 150mm Rodagon with a 50mm thread. As it won't be used on any other enlarger, I made the hole just large enough to fit the lens through and used Sugru to fix it directly to the lens board.
 

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Darkslide interlock and film counter on a Hasselblad A-12 back. The interlock was simply a matter of removing the film plate, and cleaning the gear train and spring mechanism. The film counter adjustment is even easier. Pull the leather (you don't even have to do it completely, just peel away the edges), remove the counter side plate, and advance the counter start with a dental pick. Took less than ten minutes.

What a wonderful resource YouTube has become for those of us who aren't afraid of a screwdriver and lens spanner!

Andy
 

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My son in college has finally expressed an interest in film photography; him and 3 friends, so with the assistance of Jon Goodman's superb refoaming kits and a bit of cleaning and digging through parts drawers, I am now shipping 4 Minolta SRTs (2 x 101s and 2 x 201s) to them. Just waiting for 4 x Wein cells to show up before I ship.

It's nice to put these cameras in the hands of newbies, if only to keep interest in Film alive.

NOTE: the hippie straps will make sure they are the talk of campus...

 

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An Aires 35-IIIL I ordered for a friend's Christmas gift came in today, so I pulled the lens, cleaned the shutter and optics, polished it up and it's good to go! Love these cameras..

 

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Kino said:
An Aires 35-IIIL I ordered for a friend's Christmas gift came in today, so I pulled the lens, cleaned the shutter and optics, polished it up and it's good to go! Love these cameras..

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Best looking example I've ever seen. Your friend is lucky!

Most of the examples I've seen have a lot of corrosion on the metal finishes.

Andy
 

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AndyH52 said:
Best looking example I've ever seen. Your friend is lucky!

Most of the examples I've seen have a lot of corrosion on the metal finishes.

Andy
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Even better than it only cost $15...
 

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I've been working on a Kodak (Folmer & Schwing div) Auto Graflex Junior over the last couple of days.



- Spring that resets the shutter release lever (and mirror seer) was positioned incorrectly.
- Patching the bellows, reinforced the edges and sealing a few pinholes.
- Turned the lensboard and frame over to the correct position.
- The focus hood is in some serious need of patching.

Looks like I'll also need to make a 6x4.5 mask for the DIY Roll film holder that came with it.
 

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And today I received a Clarus MS-35 in the mail that needed a good clean and lubrication to get going again. Took roughly an hour
 

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Does anyone have a current contact for Mr. Goodman? I understand he is no longer on *bay.
 

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Pieter12 said:
Does anyone have a current contact for Mr. Goodman? I understand he is no longer on *bay.
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Hasn't been there for a long time.
I have two email addresses for him, which I have shared here before, and I understand that they still work
One of them is: jon_goodman@yahoo.com
The other is: JGood21967@aol.com
He is also a member here under user name: Jon Goodman - you could try "Starting a Conversation" with him.
 

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Organization and throwing out junk. Built a 15 foot long bench for print finishing and scanning etc. It's fun.
 

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Bought a "AS-IS' Canon 55-135 f3.5 FL lens from KEH for $6 and when it arrived, it was in near mint condition other than the front lens barrel being loose.



Spun off the front elements, located the screws that couple the front focus barrel to the rear assembly and had to spend about 15 minutes playing with just how much to tighten these screws before I had a really nice working example of this early Canon lens in FL mount.

I found that if you tighten these 6 screws fully, the helicol and zoom lock entirely and will not operate. I had to back them off to a really loose state and then apply some flexible glue to the heads to lock them in place, but after drying it works fine.

The focus helicoil was pretty dry, but luckily enough of it is exposed behind the front elements to apply a small amount of helicoil grease, which smoothed-out the focus ring.

It's a pretty impressive lens. Should be fun to shoot.
 

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Cleaned all the glass and surfaces on a Six-20 Jiffy from an estate sale. Needs new mirrors though.
 
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