Warning: I was told to never touch the old Kodak Retina shutter springs and it cost me a job

My old boss at the repair shop in Cleveland always said, 'Those tiny springs in the Retina IIc are factory-set, you mess with them, you ruin the whole timing.' So for two years, I'd turn away any Retina with shutter capping, saying it couldn't be fixed. Then this local collector brought one in last month, and I finally decided to just try adjusting the slow-speed spring tension by a quarter turn. I mean, I had nothing to lose. The shutter is now perfect, firing at all speeds. I feel like an idiot for listening to that blanket rule for so long. Has anyone else found that some of those 'never touch' rules are just fear talking?

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the_sage10d ago

Congrats on beating that old fear and fixing the shutter.

juliaa2510d ago

But sometimes that fear keeps you from breaking something worse.