What did you fix today?

[McFortner]

Well, I fixed my other Canonet's light seals, plus one on a Yashica Electro 35 GSN. And it's not even 3pm yet!

Michael

 

[Kimberly Anderson]

I fixed the CV joints on my '05 Passat TDI.

 

[mike c]

I'm making a book case for my daughter's room , I'm fixing the mistakes I made on Friday. Just can't figure it out,I cut that shelf twice and Its still to short????

mike c.

 

[NormanV]

I fixed my hangover with the "hair of the dog" and now I feel fine!

 

[namke]

Yesterday, I finished off repairing the lightseals on my Fujica GS645 whilst waiting for my Saturday-night hangover to clear. I also rebuilt the front of the Polaroid Automatic 100 which I converted with a manual lens.

Hangover cleared soon after...

 

[nicefor88]

Fixed a lens!

 

[Kino]

Pentax ME super.
Advance lever kept going and going and going.
Removed the bottom cover. Bent a black lever clockwise (too much). Then bent it back a little counter clockwise.
Perfect!

Hey, I have exactly the same camera and problem!

Got pics?

 

[darinwc]

http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/pentaxmeproblems.html

The third pic points to the wind lock lever. I used a wire bending pliers (smooth round tapered tips). one tip under the neck of both levers, the other over the nose of the black lever. Gently bend it clockwise. Too much and it will lock up on next wind.

 

[Kino]

http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/pentaxmeproblems.html

The third pic points to the wind lock lever. I used a wire bending pliers (smooth round tapered tips). one tip under the neck of both levers, the other over the nose of the black lever. Gently bend it clockwise. Too much and it will lock up on next wind.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

 

[Jayd]

watch maker or Fool ?

My cheif engineer told me only a watch maker or a fool repairs watchs, not sure which I am sometimes but I still work on and sometimes actually repair cameras have a vario shutter that was stuck on release with no speeds: got working on all but B,I really need a drawing or something as a spring fell out when I took the back off and I have yet to figure out where it goes.
Jay

 

[Whiteymorange]

Got a Vivitar 200mm telephoto lens at a camera show for $1 since the aperture blades were all messed up. I figured I could use the glass for a magnifier and save all the set screws and that would be worth $1. I took apart the lens (first time for me with a 35mm lens) and took out the blades, Now I have a wide open 200mm lens with good glass. Who knows, might be interesting. If the serial number/manufacturer lists are right, this one was made by Olympus.

 

[pesphoto]

IM fixing my basement stairs

 

[removed account4]

i fixed 3 jump-ropes

 

[ic-racer]

I fixed this brake line that wore through. The line was too long, I got a shorter one from a different supplier.

 

[darinwc]

Lets stick to PHOTOGRAPHY please!
-I'm rowking on an olympus pen EED... I have it dissasembled, I just need to get some graphite. Those shutter blades are just STICKY!

 

[Mike Wilde]

Lets stick to PHOTOGRAPHY please!

Oh, please.

If it was only photo gear fixing, then I could pursue my hobby every day of the week after dinner, likely down in the darkroom.

Regrettably, there is the balance of my house that makes demands for repair or upgrade as well.

I just had 13 windows replaced last month, and have myself replaced the three exterior doors, and am mid way though chiselling the 40 year old window frame out of the poured concrete basement walls that they were set into when the original foundation was poured. Three are done, and just one more to go.

Hopefully after that the dust can be brought under control to think about getting the cameras going again.

 

[McFortner]

I had two non working Pen EES-2 that I managed to make one working camera out of plus I may have the parts left over to repair a Trip 35 (I hope).

 

[darinwc]

I had two non working Pen EES-2 that I managed to make one working camera out of plus I may have the parts left over to repair a Trip 35 (I hope).

Great job! Those little Olympus cameras are pretty easy to work on, but delicate.

 

[Marc Akemann]

Attached a new film door to my Nikon N80. The latch system on these cameras are terrible (plastic). These new doors come without a pressure plate, foam for the viewing window, the AF sensor selector switch and the AF mode switch so it wasn't just a matter of switching doors. And you have to hook up the 'wiring'. This and the kit lens it came with is probably the worst camera/lens combo I've ever owned.

Also, I cleaned up a Voigtlander Braunschweig Heliar 18cm f4.5 lens and the Ilex No. 3 Acme Synchro shutter that surrounds it. It's now looking good and working smooth.

Marc

 

[DannL]

Had a 8x10 contact printing frame in the works for quite some time. So, in leiu of making steel springs and hardening them by hand, I decided to test bent aluminum. Now that it's all done, it's interesting how much resistance will remain in a piece of aluminum that has been bent into an arc.

Recreated a oak support plate for the 8x10 view camera, which fixes several problems. It allows the camera to be centered over the tripod, and minimizes some the unnecesssary flexing in the camera rails.

Added a hook under the tripod head to hang the camera bags, film/plate holder bags, ballast, etc.

 

[TracyStorer]

Finished re-assembling a Deardorff 8x10 today. Bought several months ago kind of dirty / gritty. Took it apart, cleaned everything, gave the hardware a bit of polishing (while removed from the wooden parts), replaced a couple pieces of hardware with re-plated ones bought from Ken Hough for a different unfinished V-8, new bellows.....tomorrow, cut some lensboards and shoot?

 

[Trond]

Yesterday I finished repairing a Zenzanon 300mm 4.5 lens. A big piece of glass for the Bronica S*, EC* cameras. It almost looked new when I got it, but had fungus, and it was also literally rattling. Many screws inside the lens had for some reason unscrewed themselves, causing among other things the aperture mechanism not to work.

Now, it is finally put together again, and it seems to work almost like new!

I am planning to put it to use to photograph trees.

Trond

 

[rphenning]

a Nikon F2AS with a stuck shutter.

 

[elekm]

I just finished work on an Ikoflex I. And also a Panasonic boombox (I have a lot of cassette tapes).

 

[Christopher Walrath]

Not today but about a month ago I fixed my Minolta XG-1 that I had originally diagnosed with a capacitor (electrical) problem as to why the shutter would not advance and reset the mirror. I was fiddling with it one day at work waiting for five of the clock and I noticed that the shutter curtain edge was not quite perpendicular to the direction of travel. I know, DON'T TOIUCH THE SHUTTER CURTAINS! Well, I tok the closed end of my ball point pen and pressed ever so slightly on it and it clicked over to the side on the tension of the spring. This left a small gap. I repeated with the inner curtain and it sprang over and the mirror slapped down. I got this from ebay and the seller did not list 'AS-IS' so when it did not work I got my money back. Month later, fixed it. FREE CAMERA.