At 06:20 PM 10/5/2001 -0400, Pat Freeman wrote:
>I recently picked up an old black-body OM-1, and spent a lot of time
>restoring it (leather and foam). At the time I bought it, the shutter
>appeared to work fine. Now, however, it sticks. At "B", the curtain
>doesn't go completely into the left side (as viewed from the back), instead
>it stays out as much as a half-inch to a quarter-inch. At faster speeds,
>most of the time it simply doesn't open. Sometimes it does, but mostly it
>does not.
>
>My question is, can this be treated with SMALL amounts of lubricant in the
>shutter track?
Good *God*, no. Only a service tech oughta try something like this (and I
suspect it's not a lubrication issue in any case -- most of the innards of a
camera can only be screwed up by using lubricants incorrectly if at all).
Send it off to John Hermanson at Camtech (http://www.zuiko.com/) or Clint
(clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) at Photosphere. They'll set it straight.
Garth
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