Well, since I have started exercising the shutter regularly it has stopped hanging, but I know what you're saying. To be reliable in the field it needs to be looked at. While the shutter is a modern black Copal, the Schneider serial DB dates the lens as manufactured in 1985.
If you want the shutter to be reliable and to know what its actual speeds are, then a CLA is definately in order; Carol at Flutot's is good and is very reasonable.
If you are wishing to look and see inside a shutter start with a Copal 3. Plenty room under the bonnet there, bit like an old flat 6. The bay has folk selling shutter repair manuals also that might prove helpful,,,,, maybe.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure... Life is either daring adventure or nothing: Helen Keller.
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