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Difficulty of putting the copal shutter blades back on the plate of yashicaflex s

corydon

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Hi buddies, my Yashicaflex S has copal shutter blades got jammed. The one of 5 has some broken at the edge and 2 of 5 have ring ears distorted. I found it is very hard to put them all in the places. I wonder if there is a better way to do it?

Thanks.
 

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Whenever I've done it, I've found it helpful to not even breathe.

I think some people use Rodico (a cleaning putty used by watchmakers) to hold them in place (leaves no residue). I've only ever just gingerly put them where they needed to go and kept doing it until they all stayed long enough to get it together.

That chewed up blade looks pretty bad. You'll want to sand that damaged part as smooth as possible and I think it's still likely it'll mess up again.
 
Thanks Don. What size sand paper is suitable? And any other way to replace the chewed one.
 
More like a very fine grinding surface. You need no burrs and the blade need to be perfectly flat and smooth. Other than getting a blade from another shutter (one that matches), I don't know where else you could get one.
 
A US dime fits in the center hole nicely to hold blades up. A nickel behind that, and then you can stack more coins, find a small bottle cap, or whatever to hold the dime in place.

Or assemble with blades open. Need to slide blade ring to open position of course.
 
corydon said:
Thanks Don. What size sand paper is suitable? And any other way to replace the chewed one.
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Someone advised to fill the lens hole with some tissues to hold the blades. It did work. I finally put all 5 blades back to the shutter ring after trying 10+ times. . Now I meet the next blocking. In order to trigger the shutter release via shutter lever correctly, a cap and a spring should be mounted. But I couldn't figure out how to secure them. Please could you advise? Thanks! I tried to insert the cap inside the lever slot but the shutter just release half way.
 

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