Help to determine if the aperture index is right, and if not, how to fix it.

[interneg]

This is what a Copal 1 should look like - http://www.schneiderkreuznach.com/up...ss_co_1_02.jpg

It looks a lot like post #12 is correct.

[StuartR]

Thank you everyone, and especially Steven and interneg. What you were describing seemed to be the issue to me, so I just took a tiny screwdriver and unscrewed the aperture lever and flipped it over, and sure enough, everything lined up perfectly. The lever is in the right place, and the iris seems to correspond very closely to numbers (so it is wide open at 4.5 and then starts to block the light as soon as you stop down further). Thanks again, and I am sorry to make things unclear...I am sure you could have all easily diagnosed this if it was right in front of you!