Super Ikonta 533/2 Compur-Rapid Shutter Issues

[farlymac]

The yellow marked escapement is the self-timer.

It is engaged when you push back on the little knob at the top of the housing and move the shutter charging handle beyond this point.


The problems you are experience with the slow shutter speeds might be due to the little blade spring in the slow speed escapement not having enough tension, I can see it has uncoiled in the red section in the photo above.

That's a good catch, Rick.

PF

 

[Dan Daniel]

OK, so I have had a look at my one. I have taken some camera phone pics, but they are pretty terrible and may prove more of a hinderance than a help.
I was playing with the settings and I think I may have found your problem, because mine started exhibiting the same behaviour.
The cocking ring must be seated properly, it is stopped from this by the pallet lever shown in your pics 2 & 3. If you push down on the cocking ring to seat it, whilst pulling the pallet lever out towards the outer casing, it will allow the cocking ring to seat
properly and everything should work properly.
The ring can unseat quite easily and not be noticed because it only takes a fraction of movement to make a difference.
I hope this is clear enough to help.

I am not certain where the lever you mean is located. Can you give a clock position or such? Thanks.

 

[btvarner]

**Issue Resolved**

I wanted to thank everyone for their feedback and let everyone know that I did get the issue resolved. I hate leaving a thread unfinished, so here is what happened.

I was not able to resolve myself. Ended up taking the camera to my local repairmen. A gentleman of over 52 years of experience. He closed his shop about 2 years ago but still does repair part-time out of his home. I feel sick when I think of all the experience that will be gone when he has repaired his last camera. He re-cleaned the shutter and replaced the escapement main spring, saying that was the main reason the shutter would not complete its operation.

I learned two thing from the experience:
1) My attempts at using a sonic cleaner assembled shutters is not sufficient to remove all old oil/grease from all the crevasses in the shutter.
2) I must give more credence to the possibility of spring fatigue as an issue in these older shutters.

The camera is a mint example of a Super Ikonta 530/2 and I was correct in swallowing my pride and having this professionally resolved, rather than muddling through and possibly screwing things up beyond repair. Wow. This camera now is also mechanically perfect! The feel of the shutter is as smooth as butter. My repairman is old school and does thing right no matter how long it takes. On this shutter he not only replaced the spring and re-cleaned everything, but uses Molybdenum Disulfide on every piece of the shutter. Hand rubbing in the Molybdenum into every blade of both shutter and aperture, along with each and every other piece of metal.

My next goal is to obtain a similar old Compur-Rapid shutter from a less expensive camera and follow through this procedure myself……………

 

[btvarner]

Thanks again!!

 

[johannielscom]

Amazed to see how clean that shutter looks and if you state the camera is near mint too, I gotta ask: can we see a picture?

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Called it

 

[btvarner]

Sure, here are four images which show how amazing this camera really is.......