Emil Schildt
22-Feb-2011, 07:51
:cool:
yeah.. I actually - for the first time ever - succeded in repairing an old large Compound shutter. Actuallt the problem was more the aperture..
A couple of the blades were loose, and that clearly affected the shutter too (apart from looking quite arty by them selves...)
I opened the shutter and went on the back - opened that too, and here they all were... In a mess..
So I gently tried to put them back together - went on the net, only to read the obvious: "this is a tricky buisness"... - and back again.. and again - and again..
The first many blades are easy enough to put back, but when I had to fit a blade in the little hole under an allready fitted blade, then the trouble begins!
It is NOT for people with shaky hands!!
It took me 3 hours (!!!) and about 5 trys, but then suddenly they were all in place..
Gently I screwed the whole thing back in place again, and look and behold: The shutter problems (non working T setting and so on) suddenly worked!!
so now I have a perfectly (seemingly) working shutter to the old and beautiful Heliar it came with..
Just wanted you to know. it can be done by amateurs - if you dare.
A little proud of my self today!:rolleyes:
yeah.. I actually - for the first time ever - succeded in repairing an old large Compound shutter. Actuallt the problem was more the aperture..
A couple of the blades were loose, and that clearly affected the shutter too (apart from looking quite arty by them selves...)
I opened the shutter and went on the back - opened that too, and here they all were... In a mess..
So I gently tried to put them back together - went on the net, only to read the obvious: "this is a tricky buisness"... - and back again.. and again - and again..
The first many blades are easy enough to put back, but when I had to fit a blade in the little hole under an allready fitted blade, then the trouble begins!
It is NOT for people with shaky hands!!
It took me 3 hours (!!!) and about 5 trys, but then suddenly they were all in place..
Gently I screwed the whole thing back in place again, and look and behold: The shutter problems (non working T setting and so on) suddenly worked!!
so now I have a perfectly (seemingly) working shutter to the old and beautiful Heliar it came with..
Just wanted you to know. it can be done by amateurs - if you dare.
A little proud of my self today!:rolleyes: