Copal shutter hangs at slow times

[BrianShaw]

BUT they were all ones where I wouldn't have felt too bad about if I'd killed it instead.

That is exactly the criteria I use for deciding to D-I-Y versus professional servicing of anything I own/use.

[Geert]

I am realising now that 1s and 1/2s speeds seem to hang especially first time after not being used.

automatic reciprocity compensation?

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[Dirk Rösler]

Well, since I have started exercising the shutter regularly it has stopped hanging, but I know what you're saying. To be reliable in the field it needs to be looked at. While the shutter is a modern black Copal, the Schneider serial DB dates the lens as manufactured in 1985.

[Vick Vickery]

If you want the shutter to be reliable and to know what its actual speeds are, then a CLA is definately in order; Carol at Flutot's is good and is very reasonable.

[otzi]

If you are wishing to look and see inside a shutter start with a Copal 3. Plenty room under the bonnet there, bit like an old flat 6. The bay has folk selling shutter repair manuals also that might prove helpful,,,,, maybe.