I’ll have to try that on my dial-set Compur. The cam on the dial is a smooth (step less) curve, unlike most speed cams on rim-set. I must apologize for not reading your first post correctly... you said dial but my brain thought rim... and my fingers mistakenly believed my brain as it wrote an earlier reply.
That would be called rim-set.
Good idea or bad idea, it’s not about good or bad... it either works or it doesn’t... depends on the shutter design. I don’t know of any potential damage that could result from trying.
If it works, that’s cool. If not there are other easy ways to do the same compensation... if it’s even worth doing.
Of course it is good to experiment like you are doing.
Anyway let me say what I've learned from my collection of well beaten shutters.
First is that the key solution is having a shutter tester ($15 to $100), it is no problem that marked speeds differ a lot from the actual ones, the important thing is that the speeds are repeatable. If you know the actual speed then you stick a label with that on each lensboard and from that you have no problem to adapt the exposure to get a perfect job.
A mechanical shutter was sold brand new with an specified tolerance of +/- 30%, so 1/30 could be 1/20 or 1/40, and this is a full stop. So you need a shutter tester anyway if you want to nail exposures.
Second thing is that it's worth to experiment. I fixed 2 compur shutters by simply spraying a high performance lubricant inside (MicPol based dry thin layer teflon, Interflon Food Lube), now they work like new, and one year later both still conserve a perfect consistency. I don't recommend to do that to anybody, and if you explain that to a proficient shutter technician he will say that this is crazy, and he would be right. But I had 2 shutters that could not be used that was not worth to be repaired, and now both are working like new.
Also I tested that with a Seiko shutter but it not solved the problem, and the lubricant arrived to the wrong place... Well, experimenting also has a risk.
So, my recommendation is that you get a shutter tester and if the speeds are repeatable then use the actual speeds. https://kenrockwell.com/tech/exposure-large-format.htm
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