Norma maintenance manual - 8x10 swing question

[asf]

I used to have a Norma maintenance manual (and videos someone had put together) but mine seem to have been deleted and the online links to both are dead now

Does anyone have these they can share?

Also one specific question if anyone can help - how does one go about repositioning the swing lever on the 8x10 rear?
Mine is locked pointing nearly forward and I'd like to have it pointing out (perpendicular to the rail)
It seems like I'd have to get at some screws under the back tilt and would have to disassemble quite a bit to get to those?

[Jimi]

I would also love to be able find this manual/videos - I've been searching for it too. Can't help with the the specific question though, only have a 5x7. :)

Possibly Bernice Loui will chime in - he's been showing some of his work with Norma cameras.

[Pere Casals]

Does anyone have these they can share?


it should be this manual what you want:

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Placed in Google drive (temporary, download it soon), also user manual there.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16ktZwgMPct_GrAzNZsekuHCBm7eUCkoR?usp=sharing


You may download the video here http://sinarnormaclavideoguide.s3.amazonaws.com/SINAR_NORMA_CLA_VIDEO_GUIDE.iso

this link is in the section: "Directly download the ISO of the video guide using your web browser. Click here to download the 8GB file." In this page: https://tlrgraphy.com/2012/09/24/the-sinar-norma-cla-guide/


The PDF link does not work, you have it in the first Drive link.

[asf]

Yes, that’s it, thank you!

[Tin Can]

Yes, thank you Pere!

I have been waiting for these files to appear on this forum.

Hopefully now I can get my 5X7 into better condition by adjusting it and not by component swapping.

:cool:

[asf]

While these are the files I was looking for they don't seem to cover the 8x10 rear, so if anyone knows how to access the swing lever assembly to reposition ...

[David Lindquist]

I would also love to be able find this manual/videos - I've been searching for it too. Can't help with the the specific question though, only have a 5x7. :)

Possibly Bernice Loui will chime in - he's been showing some of his work with Norma cameras.

Bernice is a "she". Full disclosure, I did not know that for sure until a few years ago.

David

[Jimi]

Bernice is a "she". Full disclosure, I did not know that for sure until a few years ago.

David

Oh, bugger ... well, there has to be a first time too for making a downright stupid mistake.

Apologies, indeed!

[asf]

Think I've discovered the way to adjust it - set screw accessible from the bellows side of the frame seems to hit a large slotted screw under the gg frame - but I'm not going to mess with that until I find out more

[Cor]

Bernice is a "she". Full disclosure, I did not know that for sure until a few years ago.

David

Have been wondering about too, after all Bernice Abbott was a woman..the same question I had about Sandy King long ago , thought Sandy was a woman name, apperantly not only...Sandy King is a "he"..

Best,

Cor

[Coucoubox]

THANKS A LOT this Video is great !!!!! at end I can Imagine clean my Norma

[C. D. Keth]

THANKS A LOT this Video is great !!!!! at end I can Imagine clean my Norma

It will make all the difference. I did it with the 8x10 norma I just acquired. The old grease was more of a beeswax texture. A little cleaning and adjustment of one of the fine focus locking mechanisms and it's now smooth as butter.

[Greg]

This has been mentioned on other threads, but worth repeating: Do not use WD-40 as a lubricant/grease for multiple reasons.

[Daniel Unkefer]

Phillip's tutorial covered 4x5 only, just be very careful studying the mechanism and assembly/reassembly.

Properly maintained it should be smooth as silk. Follow his guidance exactly, inept repair can mangle a Norma.

[Ohio]

Thanks for this. My Norma could use a bit of maintenance and the videos especially will be really helpful.

[Don Dudenbostel]

I don’t have an 8x10 but purchased a new Norma 4x5 in 1969 and still have it and use it. I think I know where the manual and paper work is and will post relevant information if I locate it tomorrow. I think I still have the original container of grease, the lapel pin that came with it and the price list and brochure.

They’re great cameras as you know. I used it for many thousand catalog and product shot and it’s still almost like new.

For many years I had the 5x7 conversion kit and both bellows but sold the conversion kit on the forum a few years ago. I always wanted the 8x10 conversion kit but wound up with an 8x10 Deardorff, which I still have and use, due to portability on location. I replaced my 5x7 conversion with a Deardorff 5x7 / 4x5 special. Portability was a factor as is my age ;~)

For those interested, the Norma was the second most expensive monorail with the Linhof Kardan Bi tuning almost twice the price. I think I paid around $365 for the body and standard bellows in 1969 and later added the WA bellows, extension bellows, compendium holder and auxiliary frame as well as magnifier and several lengths of rail. I’ll post the prices too.