35RC troubles

[reiki_]

It arrived in the mail a few days ago, beautiful beast, viewfinder is clean , tho the patch is hardly visible, and the main problem is the shutter speed cannot be changed, I reckoned it's probably something to do with the shutter speed dial, not communicating with the actual shutter mechanism. Anybody got any other idea or how hard it is to fix this? Don't have real dismantling experience but I got tools and spare time.

Other then the shutter problem, aperture control seems to work, both the aperture and the shutter speed show up correctly in the viewfinder so I will give fixing a try.

 

[charjohncarter]

It is easy to remove the top of the camera (as the bottom). You need a small Phillips and a spanner wrench. I made the wrench out of two small nails and some epoxy. I don't know about the shutter speed dial but the other stuff is easy to get to. Also be sure to clean the inside of the RF viewer and the mirror (be very gentle here). I've used just a tiny tiny bit of graphite on parts that are binding or stiff.

 

[reiki_]

Graphite? Anyway, got to a stuck screw that just didn't want to go off, so I gave up. Thanks for the advice john 🙂.