Send it in for a CLA.
Flutot's is as good as they come and it's a very busy shop, so you'll need to be patient.
Carol has always provided a piece of paper with the speeds my shutters actually fires after a CLA.
Send it in for a CLA.
Flutot's is as good as they come and it's a very busy shop, so you'll need to be patient.
Carol has always provided a piece of paper with the speeds my shutters actually fires after a CLA.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Noticed that as well, I figure that the people selling the shutters by themselves know what they have and charge for it.
We do. I've used our contracted repair place for a CLA on an Optar and a Pacemaker body (as well as a Hasselblad 501cm and a few Leica M series for gear purchased for resale) with good results. I was just trying to be cheap - and after some clarity the cheapest route is, in fact, repair/CLA since a replacement shutter would still need a CLA.
Not “cheap”; you are trying to be THRIFTY. Commendable, as is knowing how to decide which option is really the thriftiest option! You will enjoy that lens when the shutter is overhauled.
The Ektar 203mm is a great little lens. It may be worth sending the shutter out for repair. Yes, you'd have a bit more invested in the lens, but then you'd also have a great lens in a newly-refurbished shutter.
Doremus
I work on Compur shutters almost exclusively. Can you show me a photo of the front plate of the shutter? Its likely I can get that serviced for you pretty quickly. If its one of these, I am very familiar with these and can definitely get it done for you:https://www.photrio.com/forum/attach...r1-jpg.180209/
There is one Compur shutter that is never mentioned. It never needs a CLA and works forever until it doesn't. This the Compur Electronic #1 from the 1960's. It is a mechanical shutter that will operate at its highest speed usually 1/200 or 1/500 without a battery. With the battery (4.5 volt) installed the shutter is electronically timed down to 30 secs. No timing gears to foul up that require CLA, just a bunch of resistors/capacitors (from the 1960's) that either work or don't.
I have 5 of these shutters (#1 and #3) that still work. When they don't it is usually because of corrosion in the battery holder - any easy fix, just scrape away the corrosion and make sure you use a fresh battery from 3v to 6v, since the original 4.5v battery is hard to find.
I have a few lenses in crap shutters - I just call them "neo-barrel" mounted lenses. It should be possible to front mount the whole thing onto a larger shutter with an adapter of some sort. I have a Shanel #5 shutter that's designed to be used with barrel mounted lenses with their own aperture so it's purely a shutter, with no aperture of its own. I found the Shanel on ebay with a nice Fujinar 210 lens for about what a shutter CLA would run.
I also have both the 203 and the 100mm wide field Ektar - really quite nice. The 203 is usually on my Technika. I really like the lens.
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