Kiev 4A won't rewind anymore :(

[Drago]

SO ... Since i got it it gives me nothing but problems. First shutter ribbons - fixed, now this. I really like that camera but it just doesn't want to work. Back to the problem - the rewind knob is moving free, but it doesn't cock, nothing, it just move 360. I hope i explain it clear. Is it any easy fix for that ?

 

[sevo]

There won't be much more wrong than a loose screw - the screw that attaches the knob to the spindle. At the very worst, you lost it (but all Kiev screws seem to have regular M threads, so they can be replaced).

 

[wolves3012]

There should be three screws around the edge of the winder knob. Make sure they're all there and they're all snug (they don't need to be very tight but they should not be loose). They're quite large screw heads, not hard to see.

On Kievs, the rewind-release doesn't disconnect the cocking mechanism (unlike on FED and Zorki) so that is almost certainly not the problem.