About a year ago I acquired a dud Rollie 35 for spares for my working Rollie 35 LED. Earlier this year I dropped my Rollie 35 so now to duds.
Forward to yesterday when I decided to see what I could do with the bits from these camera. First my old one with lens stuck at odd angle. Top off OK but the rest was a puzzle until I ripped off front covering to find 4 screws which remove plate around lens. 4 more screws and the lens with shutter came off. Could not see any obvious fault, worked out shutter mechanism and found it was not jammed. Well after cutting out all the not used for years metering wire I loosely assembled it to find out it now worked. Obviously the lens closing mechanism had jammed somehow. So re-assembled it.
So might as well check out the other dud with the non working shutter. Must have been something similar as once lens plate was off it started working again. So it was reassembled and instead of two duds two working cameras. LED metering was dud on both as it is run by a long gone battery, but otherwise they look fine. Front covering was replaced by sticky vinyl, wood grain on one, looks good and black felt on the other.
Just need a test film through each of them. Moral is if it is dud have a go, you never know.
Forward to yesterday when I decided to see what I could do with the bits from these camera. First my old one with lens stuck at odd angle. Top off OK but the rest was a puzzle until I ripped off front covering to find 4 screws which remove plate around lens. 4 more screws and the lens with shutter came off. Could not see any obvious fault, worked out shutter mechanism and found it was not jammed. Well after cutting out all the not used for years metering wire I loosely assembled it to find out it now worked. Obviously the lens closing mechanism had jammed somehow. So re-assembled it.
So might as well check out the other dud with the non working shutter. Must have been something similar as once lens plate was off it started working again. So it was reassembled and instead of two duds two working cameras. LED metering was dud on both as it is run by a long gone battery, but otherwise they look fine. Front covering was replaced by sticky vinyl, wood grain on one, looks good and black felt on the other.
Just need a test film through each of them. Moral is if it is dud have a go, you never know.
