------------------- original ----------------- begin Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:14:45 +0200 From: "keller.schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ------------------- original ----------------- end I don't look forward to the disassembly part of the process. What I have noticed is that the oils tend to flow when units get warm. That is, when left to sit in the sun or by a warm vent. But yes, the oil probably will come back. But I just hope later rather than sooner. The Ikonta B I got looks hardly used. Like this happened to it 30 years ago and it just sat around in a box or closet to be cleaned out later. Collin -- --------------------- "It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere." C. S. Lewis --
