oh for the love of god help!

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i was following this thread http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50601, cleaning my 1952 summitar

everything had gone fine, i was about to screw back on the front element, when the middle black aperture controller fell out of the lens.
i tried to put it back together, but alas,
the aperture blades are all over the place, and now they are on my desk.

i found this http://books.google.com/books?id=NS...&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

and it makes it sound easy enough but, i have no idea in what order to place the blades back in.

does anyone know how to line up aperture blades?

i'm working with tweezers here and i think i can do it with some guidance!

thanks
 
OK, I moved this to the repair forum, and you may want to send a PM to Brian Sweeney. Direct him to the thread and ask him to make comment if he can.

There are a lot of other handymen here who I am sure will also offer advise.
 
Good luck! Perhaps back alley, a resident expert on misplaced diaphram blades (and compressed air) can be of assistance. :)
 
I'm not familiar with that lens but sometimes it's helpful to arrange the blades upside down on a piece of cardboard, put the ring they fit on on top of them and flip the whole thing over. Then you just have to push the blades around til they seat on their pins.
 
FrankS said:
This is part of RFF lore, stories passed down from one generation to the next. :)
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I think of it more as a parable, I generally think about joe every time I touch compressed-air, how does it go ...

... "let the wrecks of others be your sea-markers" or something like that
 
The order is not important unless one of the blades is a different shape.
I find it easiest to start with the blade housing set on a 35mm film can. It's best with two pr of tweezers or a tweezer and a small piece of wood like a bamboo skewer. The skewer is used to hold the top blade in place by pressing down when you slide the next blade into place.
 
You could probably fix it yourself Wenson! A steady hand and patience is all that's needed. Took me five or six tries to get these aperture blades back in :)

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you guys are gods.
especially you jonmanjiro.
just looking at this picture with all these blades kinda gives me diarrhea and the sweats.

but i like beer, and i dont quit when i should.
looks like i got an appointment with the devil tonite!

thank you all
 
I remember messing around with the Compur shutter on my Crown Graphic and watching in horror as all the leaf shutter blades fell out and landed on the desk in front of me!

It was a defining moment!
 
Keith said:
I remember messing around with the Compur shutter on my Crown Graphic and watching in horror as all the leaf shutter blades fell out and landed on the desk in front of me!

It was a defining moment!
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There's nothing quite like taking something in for repair in a box that rattles ... it's a bit like being sent to see the headmaster
 
Sparrow said:
There's nothing quite like taking something in for repair in a box that rattles ... it's a bit like being sent to see the headmaster
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About four hours and pure bloody mindedness eventually got it back together ... it was very stressful though and as you say turning up for repair to a tech with a box that rattles is the ultimate humiliation!
 
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