looking for repair of a Studio Shutter

[Jim Noel]

The title says it all.
I have a Studio shutter which holds my favorite 12"Wolly with soft adjustment. It quit suddenly, so I believe it could be a broken spring.
I am looking for a repair person.

[Bob Salomon]

Bob Watkins at Precision Camera is in CA.

[Jim Noel]

Thanks,I'll try to contact him

[Jim Noel]

Thanks,I attempted to contact this company and according to their web site they deal digital repair,not shutters.
I appreciate your effort.

[Bob Salomon]

You found the wrong site.

https://www.precisioncameraworks.com/

[Drew Bedo]

Try Professional Camera Repair in Houston:

www.professionalcamerarepair.com

[Jim Noel]

Thank you Bob.

[erian]

Please let us know how it turned out!

[Jim Andrada]

There's Carol at Flutot's in LA. I've had a few shutters repaired and she does good work.

[dap]

My advice - open the shutter up and take a look. For years I avoided buying lenses in studio shutters because I heard how fragile and unreliable they are. In my experience any talk of their poor design has been overstated. Studio shutters are extremely simple devices - many problems will be relatively easy to troubleshoot and remedy. I have opened a couple up to do repairs (replaced broken shutter leaves, flattened warped shutter leaves, cleaned mechanisms, etc.) and I would venture to guess that most people on this forum with moderate mechanical aptitude could tackle a minor repair on one successfully.

One word of advice - take it easy when you handle the blades. They are robust enough to do their job and they will easily withstand careful handling, but a quick careless flex will cause them to shatter.

[Jim Noel]

Please let us know how it turned out!

They returned it as unrepairable.

[Jim Noel]

My advice - open the shutter up and take a look. For years I avoided buying lenses in studio shutters because I heard how fragile and unreliable they are. In my experience any talk of their poor design has been overstated. Studio shutters are extremely simple devices - many problems will be relatively easy to troubleshoot and remedy. I have opened a couple up to do repairs (replaced broken shutter leaves, flattened warped shutter leaves, cleaned mechanisms, etc.) and I would venture to guess that most people on this forum with moderate mechanical aptitude could tackle a minor repair on one successfully.

One word of advice - take it easy when you handle the blades. They are robust enough to do their job and they will easily withstand careful handling, but a quick careless flex will cause them to shatter.

It and my other studio shutters have been opened by me several times. This one was and si beyond me.

[dap]

It and my other studio shutters have been opened by me several times. This one was and si beyond me.

Did they at least tell you what the problem was?

[Jim Noel]

Did they at least tell you what the problem was?

No, only mentioned a missing retaining ring which i told them in the note i sent with it.