What did you fix today?

[darinwc]

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Post your stories here!

 

[darinwc]

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!

 

[gordrob]

Developed and fixed a couple of contact sheets, then drilled and mounted a retaining ring on a Plaubel lens board to take a Kodak 305mm Portrait Lens in a No 5 Universal Shutter.

Gord

 

[removed account4]

i fixed some vittles
and i am fixin' to saw a big log ..

 

[David William White]

Fixed a cashflow problem.

 

[Anscojohn]

A roll of outdated TMax100 in 120.

 

[fschifano]

Installed new front disk rotors and pads to my VW Passat.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

Installed new 'gas pumps' (I do not know the right name in English, do you?) holding up the back door of my Volvo station-wagon, fixing the problem of 'the dropping trapdoor'.
The other thing I recently fixed was a d***l issue, but not of any importance here...

Philippe

 

[kavandje]

Freed up a shutter from a ~1937 Rolleicord. B doesn't work yet, and the aperture ring adjuster thing is out of adjustment, but I'll dive back in sometime today.

 

[Wade D]

I took out my spanner wrench and disassembled an old zoom lens. Cleaned all the elements, lubricated the moving parts and reassembled it. Just like brand new after 25 years.

 

[nuckabean]

Polaroid 600SE for a friend.
Just needed some parts glued on the back.

 

[Steve Smith]

i fixed some vittles
and i am fixin' to saw a big log ..

Reminds me of a line from the 'Family Guy' episode with 'The Fast Talking High Trousers' clip.

Well maybe I'm through supposin' and I'm fixin' to start figurin'



Steve.

 

[darinwc]

This thread is getting weirder by the minute..

 

[ninjarider]

Yashica Electro 35. Soldered a wire on the circuit board. Now the yellow "long exposure" lamp works!

 

[Ian Grant]

Thornton Pickard shutter, bought for spares/repair - now works. Shutter blinds ironed, cleaned, re-light proofed but I need to make a new release mechanisms.

Ian

 

[Bill Harrison]

Fixed my dwindling supply of film. Rolled 100 ft of apx 100 & 100 ft of Neopan 400. Both dated 2007, out of freezer, now in ref... Next, holders for the Galvin. Spring has sprung, that fixes winter.

 

[Rick A]

My last five sheets of Forte polywarmtone-------I'm sooooo depressed

 

[DWThomas]

I replaced the cord on the power supply for a Graflarger back which I have adapted to fit my B&J. Now if on Worldwide Pinhole day I use up some old 4x5 film laying around here, I may be able to enlarge it! This thing was salvaged out of a junk pile circa 1960 and I've never used it -- but it lights!

I drilled the metal case and added a ground lug and used three conductor cord, so if it runs amok, I don't light up.

DaveT

 

[jolefler]

It's been more than today...

but I now have the shutter on formerly Brandon's Rolleicord Type III version 2 running again

Put the camera back together only to find I should have checked the pc sync before re-assembly :rolleyes: The whole reason for it's purchase was to have a flash capable back-up camera. Hello, Im a dumba**

It'll just have to wait 'till I'm good-n-ready. Too P.O.'d off now....re-glued the front leather and everything!

Jo

 

[mrmekon]

Fixed a mangled and bent shutter blade on the Elgeet 38mm telephoto lens on my Bolex H8. The blades were so screwed (and I so inexperienced) that I had already written it off as trash, but a few hours of delicate tinkering led to a fully working lens! There was a LOT of misplaced grease and I didn't quite get it all off the internal elements, but it's at least usable now.

 

[mike c]

Lost my cell phone,now I reckon I'am fix'un to get anuther one. nice for a while any ways.

 

[Gene Crumly Photo]

My water temp controller, needed a new o-ring after 17 years of use, not bad.

 

[J Rollinger]

My daughters car. She hit a pothole so i had to replace 2 tires and 1 rim.

 

[jasonhall]

My daughters car. She hit a pothole so i had to replace 2 tires and 1 rim.

Better go fix the pothole

 

[PHOTOTONE]

I fixed the Alphax shutter on a Wollensack 14" Apo Raptar lens, then I affixed the lens to a lensboard, and shot a test negative.