Yikes! My compound lost it's socket!

[John Kasaian]

The socket where the cable release screws into the shutter has vanished. Is this and easy do it myself fix? If so, any suggestions on where I can buy the neccesary part? Or will this require a trip to Grimes in order to be made usable again? A delightfully old bubbly glass 12" Goerz Dagor lives in this shutter so IMHO its definatly worth fixing. Thanks!

[David A. Goldfarb]

Not an unusual problem. I had Grimes replace one when they did a CLA on a Compound shutter that I have.

[domenico Foschi]

Ithappened to me a few days ago for thesecond time ..
Make sure you actually lost it , it might be still screwed in your cable release.
From now on i will always keep lens and cable separated when not in use.

[John Kasaian]

domenico,

And all along I thought I'd swallowed a peppercorn hiding in in that Alfredo sauce! ;-)

[Robert Musgjerd]

Don't send it to grimes.They wanted to charge me fourty dollars just to tell me they couldn't fix it. I had the same problem.

[John Kasaian]

Hey hey! I just got my old Dagor back from Carol Miller at Flutot's Camera with a cable release socket in place! A happy ending to the saga of this old lens!