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Can someone show me where this part goes, in my Copal No. 1? I pasted in a shot of its flip-side too.
I can't find a picture on the web, at least where I recognize it.
I bought the shutter with the blade-parts falling out, so I took it apart and got the blades in later.
I waited too long, and don't remember how the rest was put together.
Looks like it might pull on the shutter-blades, but I don't know.
Thanks,
Pete
Google-images brought up a pic with the front-plate on that solved that part of it. It's from here:
http://kanscamera.sakura.ne.jp/hp5/html/tips081.htm
Cocking and release doesn't work right (snaps from open to open, stuff like that), and the little lighter-than-hair spring on the stepped-triangular piece near the release has flown off. Hmm.
Perhaps a better route would be to carefully package all the parts and send this off to a fully qualified repair person like Carol at Flutotscamerarepair.com. Good luck.
Does anyone have a pic of a Copal 1 with the front off?
Now, what I want to look at is the position of parts, maybe around the release; something that would confirm how the parts and springs are supposed to sit.
I don't think much is wrong with this shutter.
I didn't put it on a DIY forum just to get another plug for Flutot's. Maybe I can get it working and post some pics myself, since there aren't many around.
Right now I'm wondering where I could get thin enough springy-wire to make another little spring.
I wonder if it went up my nose.
Here's an option if nothing else pans out:
http://www.oldtimercameras.com/ephot...ModelPage=true
Ha,
Thanks, a service manual would be good. That one says it's a parts-list, and costs the same as I paid for the shipped shutter - coincidence. Earlier I downloaded a Prontor manual, and found the Compur manual pages, learned some things from those. Might go back to them.
The story is: I bought a broken camera with an old Goerz Dagor in it, for the lens. After awhile I realized it had just taken a nose-dive, and I straightened it out. It's a Huttig Ideal, predecessor of the ICA and Zeiss ones. It's the 5x7 size. The shutter is an old dial-set Ilex, the style that looks like rabbit-ears. It's missing the face, but I got it to work in "B" mode. I made a film-holder out of mat-board (think someone on this site posted his, and I did it like him). So I'm using it to take 5x7 pictures onto photo-paper. The shutter doesn't have a cable-release hole, so I'm seeing if I can cobble the Copal together enough to take its place.
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I've attached the Copal #1 exploded diagram and photos of the difficult spots. I have additional images. Let me know if there is another section for which you need the image. Also - watch out for the one left hand screw - if one screw with a broad flat head does not come out easily, chances are you need to turn it the other way.
Cheers,
Bill
Here is the exploded diagram.Attachment 89938
Wow!
That's just great! I'm very excited to have those; thanks a lot!