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A retired machinist taught me about shutter timing on a bench in Portland
I was fixing a beat up Nikon F2 at a swap meet in Portland last spring. An older guy sits down next to me and says, 'you know those shutter speeds are just springs wearing out, right?' He then showed me how the spring tension changes after 40 years of use. Took me about 20 minutes to adjust the main spring following his method. Has anyone else had a random stranger drop some repair wisdom on you like that?
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jamesroberts2h ago
That old machinist wisdom is PRICELESS. Some retired watchmaker showed me the same trick on a Pentax Spotmatic at a flea market in Denver.
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drew556m ago
That's the kind of stuff you can't learn from a YouTube video, isn't it?
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