Found a note about shutter oil in a 1978 repair manual

I was cleaning out my bench and found my old boss's manual for the Pentax K1000, with a handwritten note saying they used a specific 0.5mm oil drop on the shutter axle. I looked it up and that exact spec was phased out by 1985 for a dry lubricant system. How many of you still run into old cameras needing that kind of precise oiling?

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michael_williams2d ago

Found that out the hard way on my own K1000.

jesse_smith101d ago

Remember the time I tried to fix the light seals myself. Got black goo everywhere, even on the mirror. Ended up with fuzzy bits in every shot for a month. Sometimes you just have to leave it to the people with the right tools and cleaner.

parker_hall51d ago

Honestly I just used rubbing alcohol and a ton of q-tips, took forever but it worked.