What did you fix today?

[Mike Wilde]

Lets stick to PHOTOGRAPHY please!

Oh, please.

If it was only photo gear fixing, then I could pursue my hobby every day of the week after dinner, likely down in the darkroom.

Regrettably, there is the balance of my house that makes demands for repair or upgrade as well.

I just had 13 windows replaced last month, and have myself replaced the three exterior doors, and am mid way though chiselling the 40 year old window frame out of the poured concrete basement walls that they were set into when the original foundation was poured. Three are done, and just one more to go.

Hopefully after that the dust can be brought under control to think about getting the cameras going again.

[McFortner]

I had two non working Pen EES-2 that I managed to make one working camera out of plus I may have the parts left over to repair a Trip 35 (I hope).

[darinwc]

I had two non working Pen EES-2 that I managed to make one working camera out of plus I may have the parts left over to repair a Trip 35 (I hope).

Great job! Those little Olympus cameras are pretty easy to work on, but delicate.

[FilmSprocket]

Attached a new film door to my Nikon N80. The latch system on these cameras are terrible (plastic). These new doors come without a pressure plate, foam for the viewing window, the AF sensor selector switch and the AF mode switch so it wasn't just a matter of switching doors. And you have to hook up the 'wiring'. This and the kit lens it came with is probably the worst camera/lens combo I've ever owned.

Also, I cleaned up a Voigtlander Braunschweig Heliar 18cm f4.5 lens and the Ilex No. 3 Acme Synchro shutter that surrounds it. It's now looking good and working smooth.

Marc

[TracyStorer]

Finished re-assembling a Deardorff 8x10 today. Bought several months ago kind of dirty / gritty. Took it apart, cleaned everything, gave the hardware a bit of polishing (while removed from the wooden parts), replaced a couple pieces of hardware with re-plated ones bought from Ken Hough for a different unfinished V-8, new bellows.....tomorrow, cut some lensboards and shoot?

[Trond]

Yesterday I finished repairing a Zenzanon 300mm 4.5 lens. A big piece of glass for the Bronica S*, EC* cameras. It almost looked new when I got it, but had fungus, and it was also literally rattling. Many screws inside the lens had for some reason unscrewed themselves, causing among other things the aperture mechanism not to work.

Now, it is finally put together again, and it seems to work almost like new!

I am planning to put it to use to photograph trees.

Trond

[rphenning]

a Nikon F2AS with a stuck shutter.

[elekm]

I just finished work on an Ikoflex I. And also a Panasonic boombox (I have a lot of cassette tapes).

[Christopher Walrath]

Not today but about a month ago I fixed my Minolta XG-1 that I had originally diagnosed with a capacitor (electrical) problem as to why the shutter would not advance and reset the mirror. I was fiddling with it one day at work waiting for five of the clock and I noticed that the shutter curtain edge was not quite perpendicular to the direction of travel. I know, DON'T TOIUCH THE SHUTTER CURTAINS! Well, I tok the closed end of my ball point pen and pressed ever so slightly on it and it clicked over to the side on the tension of the spring. This left a small gap. I repeated with the inner curtain and it sprang over and the mirror slapped down. I got this from ebay and the seller did not list 'AS-IS' so when it did not work I got my money back. Month later, fixed it. FREE CAMERA.

[John_Nikon_F]

Over the past couple weeks:

• Built a frankenstein Nikkormat, using an FT body and an FT3 mirror box. Have yet to get the whole thing working, but will work on it in my spare time.
• Combined a couple parts FTn's into one working FTn that just needs to have the wiring to the meter hooked up to get it working completely.
• Cleaned up a Nikkormat EL that must've gone swimming, but still functioned properly.
• Figured out why one of the FTn parts bodies wouldn't fire - had gone swimming, and the cocking lever had become disconnected from the winding mechanism. Fires once manually cocked, and the stop down mechanism is engaged. All speeds sound ok.
• Replaced the EM/FG/FG-20 rewind knob on my FE2 with one from my old FM2n, which entailed unlatching the back, after the rewind shaft dropped into the body after closing the back. Still need to readjust the ISO dial so it isn't off a stop.

Future projects will probably consist of locating a new top cover and baseplate for the FE2, buying a new FT2 top cover, then installing the parts on the respective bodies.