welta welti film transport

[Malinku]

I got a pre-war welts welti that has a bad film transport. The transport does not engage the piece that holds/moves the film. camera does have the auto stop feature.

I'm thinking it shouldn't be too hard to repair if no parts are broken. Anyone have experience repairing these cameras.

 

[summicron1]

have you made sure the key to wind the film is pushed all the way in, or that the re-wind button is not pushed in and stuck (if this is a 35mm camera)?

Sometimes if you don't, and close the back, the key is locked partially out and won't engage.

I can't imagine this is hard to fix.

here is a link to the manual: http://www.butkus.org/chinon/welta/welti/welti_i.htm

 

[Ole]

I have two Welti's.

One I inherited from my father, and it has the exact same problem with the winding mechanism. The other I bought to have a working one - it's a nice little camera!
Unfortunately the problem seems to be caused by a worn part in the winding mechanism which allows a worn gear to slip a little bit thus not engaging the next gear in the sequence.

Unfortunately all my earthly belongings are in boxes or will very soon be in boxes for moving, but I will have a closer look at it some time later this year.

 

[Malinku]

Turns out nothing was wrong with the camera. I just the knob that disengaged the film advance in the wrong slot.
Doh.

It is now back in action. I'm glad as I really like this little camera And steinhell lens it has