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I always thought you had to replace a whole shutter assembly on a Nikon F3 if the second curtain was slow.
A guy at the camera swap meet in Sacramento showed me you can often fix it by just cleaning the old grease off the curtain drum axle with a tiny bit of Ronsonol on a cotton swab. I tried it on a junker body and it brought the speeds back within spec after three careful cleanings. Has anyone else had luck with this instead of a full tear down?
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avery_jackson6h ago
Heard a similar story from a friend of william_garcia, who fixed his dad's old F3 with just a drop of lighter fluid on a toothpick.
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simonp7639m ago
I always thought that was crazy, but @avery_jackson, it really works!
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