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No, I haven't Gary but if you take a close look at the pics you'll see that if I tap the ring back it will "hit" a fixed and dented ring that serves as a grip for mounting on the lens board. The only...

Well, I'm happy to say I managed to loosen the apertura ring and the diaphragm works smoothly and perfectly. Just as a recap in case it's of help to anyone, this is what I did:

Yesterday night...

Thanks Paul. As soon as the sun comes out (pretty rainy sround here) I'll give it a go; in the meantime I got kyself some lighter fluid.

Tried and couldn't get it to move... I've been reading about using liquid fuel so might as well give that a try and/or cold...

I guess it might be, by what I've read, old waxy lubricant with dirt...

Thanks Gary. Will try with what you say (at least it works with my motorcycle...) but it's quite solid so let's see...

Thank you Tin Can! ;)

Hello everyone,

I've just got my hands on a pretty decent Goerz Rapid Paraplanat II which I'm eager to test but it has a major problem I can't figure out how to solve: the diaphragm ring doesn't...

Hello everyone,
My name is Rafa and after a long time shooting 35mm and 6x7 I've finally decided to take the jump into LF. I could of gone the more "modern way" with an Intrepid or any other camera...