aperture blade repair for ikonta

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I have an Ikonta with the compur rapid shutter. a couple of the aperture iris blades are disconnected. You can see this by using bulb with the back open.

Question: What is the EASIEST way to get to the aperture blades to effect repair. The shutter fires fine, just cannot go larger than F4 on the f2.8 lens.80mm tessar.

Do I have to open up the shutter to get to the iris.

thanks for all you help

David
 
You have to remove the shutter from the body, remove the lenses, carefully.

Usually three screws on the back of the shutter housing as per the page chippy posted.

-With some gentle fiddling the back comes off. All the shutter blades might fall out at this point. Some are stuck to the back and some ares stuck to the front. Apparently it is a good idea to note, if you can, where each blade goes. I've had some success with this by making a drawing of the shutter blades and placing the blades in a numbered container of some sort. Egg carton for instance.
-This is a good time to clean and lubricate the timer mechanism. Use lighter fluid to flush completely. Lubricate with tiny drops of Nyoil (from Microtools http://www.micro-tools.com/store/item_detail.aspx?ItemCode=NYOIL)

-The iris blades are then obvious, behind a circular plate held by three screws. I've only done this twice before and I found both times that some blades were damaged. So good luck!
-Then to reassemble, clean each blade with alcohol and gently place them in there respective positions. I like to use plastic (non,magnetic) tweezers. I have had good success by lightly lubricating the ring with light grease. Keep anything off the blades.

Then you must attend to the shutter blades.
-clean these very gently and perfectly with alcohol. When clean do not touch with your fingers as the natural oil on your fingers will show on the blades. It may actually affect the shutter speed.
-assemble using plastic tweezers placing each blade in their respective positions on the back of the shutter timer mechanism.
This is a real bugger, until you do it a few times. Be patient.
Do not lubricate**. Make sure no lubrication can come in contact with the blades from the timer or the iris mechanism.
-replace the housing carefully over the shutter blades with out disturbing the shutter blades. (this is also a real bugger)

Reset shutter speed etc.

No...it isn't easy.

(** I have carefully taken a soft "B" pencil and gently rubbed the fulcrum of the shutter blades on both sides before replacing, to act as a lubricant.)
 
Funny, I have a Super Ikonta B with the same problem - I only discovered it last week.

It's great that this forum has so many highly knowledgeable and experienced people!

But, I personally do not feel confident enough to fix this myself - I plan to send it for repair, and cleaning whilst at it - DOES anyone know someone in Europe who does this kind of work on old (but great) folders?

Thanks.
 
I have an Ikonta with the compur rapid shutter. a couple of the aperture iris blades are disconnected. You can see this by using bulb with the back open.

Question: What is the EASIEST way to get to the aperture blades to effect repair. The shutter fires fine, just cannot go larger than F4 on the f2.8 lens.80mm tessar.

Do I have to open up the shutter to get to the iris.

thanks for all you help

David

Illustrated tutorial on disassembling a Compur Rapid shutter: http://pheugo.com/cameras/index.php?page=compur&WEBMGR=b27f345ba8afb234a7226fc760aabfde Even with the tutorial, it isn't anything remotely approaching easy.
 
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HELP please - repair of loose aperture blades

HELP please - repair of loose aperture blades

Funny, I have a Super Ikonta B with the same problem - I only discovered it last week.

It's great that this forum has so many highly knowledgeable and experienced people!

But, I personally do not feel confident enough to fix this myself - I plan to send it for repair, and cleaning whilst at it - DOES anyone know someone in Europe who does this kind of work on old (but great) folders?

Thanks.


HELLO - I'm reviving this old thread because now I have a Zeiss Super Ikonta D (530/15) with the same aperture blade problem as my "B" had a couple of years ago. (That was repaired by Jørgen Kreckel (sp.?) in the USA.)

But this time I would like to use a repair person in Europe. I had trouble re-importing my camera back into Denmark last time and it was a pain to re-claim import taxes.

So, does anyone know of a competent repair person who could do this repair?

THANKS in advance for your help!
 
HELLO - I'm reviving this old thread because now I have a Zeiss Super Ikonta D (530/15) with the same aperture blade problem as my "B" had a couple of years ago. (That was repaired by Jørgen Kreckel (sp.?) in the USA.)

But this time I would like to use a repair person in Europe. I had trouble re-importing my camera back into Denmark last time and it was a pain to re-claim import taxes.

So, does anyone know of a competent repair person who could do this repair?

THANKS in advance for your help!


You might ask J.Noir in Spain. He has much experience with folders.
He is member of this forum.
 
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