The camera as found.
The diaphragm has loose leaves.
The bottom cover was bent
This is the side that was bent. I fixed it with a vice ans two pieces
of wood
The result.
This little mirror from the range finder was unglued. It took me
sometime to find where to glue it.
The mirror goes here. I firs glued it to a toothpick and then I glued
it to the range finder chassis.
To remove the lenses, there are 4 screws under the leatherette to be
removed. There are 4 wires to cut.
I left on the camera side a little piece of cable to know where the
wires have to be re welded.
The front lens came out easily. Y just unscrewed it by hand.
To remove the next element, you have to unscrew the dented ring that
you can see at the right of this picture. The finger on this element
has to go on the slit of the last ring.
The rear element came out easily.
The foam light seal was beyond all hope.
First stud came out.
I put it on the back element. More to come!
The next ring bolt was extremely hard to remove. I put some oil but it
did not help. I finally used a 4 feet lever to remove it.
Finally the shutter was out.
Three screws holds in place the diaphragm ring.
Four more screws to remove the shutter.
As found. The aperture blades are badly damaged.
Two screws hold in place the aperture blades.
The blades.
To straighten the blades, I put each blade between scissors and I
squeezed it as hard as I could.
Squeezing the blade.
The blades in better shape.
I found a copper wire that had the same width of the studs.
With a home made lathe (a little more than a drill on a workbench) I
reduced one of the sides of the wire.
Another view of the leaf.
With a very small hammer, I flattened the new stud.
The finished blade.
The blades in place. The new studs protrude a little bit and I have to
enlarge the holes of the retaining plates.
The holes being enlarged. I did it with a Dremmel.
The plate finished.
The blades closed.
NOTE: One of the blades only lasted a few days. The blade is actually
splitted in two. More to come!!!