Shutter speeds off after no usage for months

[jtk]

lighter fluid-shade tree solvent--great great grandpa get by when shutters were all metal.
Do you still use a horse and buggy daily?

Surely metal is the rule with shutters that have futures ? Rubber was solely for prevention of disease.

 

[BradS]

Lighter fluid...Ronson

and then toss on a lit match - a la Jimi Hendrix at Monterey.

 

[tonyowen]

[QUOTE="shutterfinger, post: 2275992, member: 62550 Do you still use a horse and buggy daily?[/QUOTE]

I'm surprised no one has come back on this comment. The Amish of Pennsylvania, USA and the Mennonites of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada certainly use horse and buggy daily, though whether they use cameras is another matter!!
regards
Tony

 

[shutterfinger]

The Amish shy away from cameras as a camera will capture their soul.

 

[Bob S]

[QUOTE="shutterfinger, post: 2275992, member: 62550 Do you still use a horse and buggy daily?

I'm surprised no one has come back on this comment. The Amish of Pennsylvania, USA and the Mennonites of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada certainly use horse and buggy daily, though whether they use cameras is another matter!!
regards
Tony[/QUOTE]
4 Amish kids in Ohio this last week were killed in a buggy accident.

 

[shutterfinger]

Do you still use a horse and buggy daily?

This comment was based on the fact that the main mode of transportation was horse or horse drawn vehicles at the time Lighter Fluid became the go to cleaner for sticky shutters.
Ronsonol Lighter Fluid MSDS http://doryventures.scene7.com/is/content/DoryVentures/Ronson/Website/Servicing/2018MSDSRonsonol.pdf
Zippo Lighter Fluid MSDS https://www.vercounty.org/MSDS/EMA/Zippo Lighter Fluid-USA.pdf
Coleman Camp Fuel MSDS http://ferris.msdssoftware.com/ImageDir/i011DA2E.pdf
All at or near 100% petroleum distillates. Petroleum Distillates leave a residue.
CRC QD Contact Cleaner MSDS http://docs.crcindustries.com/msds/6102.pdf is a petroleum based electrical cleaner that contains Isopropyl Alcohol and other chemicals but does net leave a residue.
Isopropyl Alcohol is a very good cleaner - degreaser.
I'm sure there are other good degreasers - cleaners that do not leave a residue or damage plastics or rubber making them safer to use on camera equipment.

 

[shutterfinger]

The #1 Synchro Compur CN-1307-000 was benched and replaced due to deformed time, bulb, shutter lockout parts. An ear on the lockout (664) broke off while trying to reform the part. The ear is about 1 millimeter long, 1 millimeter at the lever end tapering to a point, next to impossible to repair. Steps in the bulb and time levers (693, 694) that are about 1 millimeter and 45° to the base and the arm of the lever are near impossible to reform also.

I hope Tony is having better luck.

 

[Mamiya_Repair]

Forty years of repairing these shutters and I have most Compur shutter parts available (new), please PM me.

 

[BradS]

I'm surprised no one has come back on this comment. The Amish of Pennsylvania, USA and the Mennonites of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada certainly use horse and buggy daily, though whether they use cameras is another matter!!
regards
Tony

The Mennonites here in Sonora drive modern automobiles and pickup trucks.

 

[Bob S]

The Mennonites here in Sonora drive modern automobiles and pickup trucks.

They do also around Lancaster

 

[tonyowen]

The Mennonites here in Sonora drive modern automobiles and pickup trucks.

They do also around Lancaster

Some groups are obviously more strict, or more relaxed, than others
regards
Tony