I have also cleaned some grease from shutter or aperture blades with a cotton swab and some solvent. This works well, as long as you do not soak the whole thing and as long as you understand that you are curing a symptom not the cause. The grease did not just materialise on the blades, but came from inside the lens - from helicoids, rings, levers, whatever. If some has found its way onto the blades, there is more to come...
So a real repair requires the whole thing to be taken to pieces. And there is no feeling like seing a bunch of disassembled shutter blades in front of you... Sven Zitat von Collin Brendemuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It takes about an hour. > The Ikonta's shutter leaves were oily and sticky. > So I grabbed some cotton swabs, and the lighter fluid, and tweezers. > The lighter fluit dissolves the oils and the swabs pick it up nicely. > The tweezers are for pulling out > the little cotton fibers (or fibres for EUs & CNs) so > that they don't bind up the mechanism. > It's really not a bad job. > You can get bargains and fix them cheaply. > > Got it loaded with Acros. > Next stop, Cincinnati. > > Collin > >
