Fixing shutter cocking lever

[joey]

I have a brand new FED-5 camera. When the shutter cocking lever is released; it doesn't come close enough to the body of the camera. There's a fair gap between the body of the camera and the cocking lever. I don't know much about the inner mechanism in this camera; I believe there's a spring inside of the camera which brings the cocking lever back to its resting position. Probably, this spring is not functioning as well as it should or maybe there's something else in fault.

Can this problem be easily fixed?

Thanks

 

[fidget]

Hi Joey, this is normal, or at least it's normal for the lever not to tuck into the body by a spring. On mine the last 7 to 8mm of travel is completed by pushing the lever in. It's a friction action. Will yours move into the body if you push it? Should move easily.
This is different from the FED3 and FED4 on which the lever is returned by spring pressure right up to the body. The FED5 seems to use the "modern" lever action.
Dave

 

[joey]

Hi Joey, this is normal, or at least it's normal for the lever not to tuck into the body by a spring. On mine the last 7 to 8mm of travel is completed by pushing the lever in. It's a friction action. Will yours move into the body if you push it? Should move easily.
This is different from the FED3 and FED4 on which the lever is returned by spring pressure right up to the body. The FED5 seems to use the "modern" lever action.
Dave

See the picture. That how far it goes. When I push it; it comes closer but it doesn tuck against the body of the camera. when I push the cocking lever harder, only then it touches the body of the camera. Anyway, I have FED-5B, the cocking lever works better on this camera.