Spent a whole Saturday chasing a shutter issue only to find it was a dried up grease spot on the curtain track (of all places)

After three hours of testing magnets and rewiring a Copal shutter on this old Mamiya I picked up at a flea market, I finally noticed a tiny crust of old lube stuck to the edge of the blade - cleaned it off with a toothpick and the thing fired perfectly on the first try, anyone else ever miss something that obvious before cracking open the schematics?

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shanes6615d ago

Calling it a Saturday waste is a stretch. You fixed it, didn't you?

kim_mason5515d ago

Ngl, doesn't that mean it was kinda worth it?

rosepark15d ago

Nah I get it though. There's nothing worse than losing a whole day to fixing something you didn't even break in the first place. Still, glad you got it sorted in the end.