Voigtlander E-messer/E 6x9 folder

[nimcod]

Just picked up a rangefinder coupled voigtlander 6x9 folder "E" with a helomar lens. according to the pictures i can find on the internet.

This is an incredible long shot, but does anyone know how to adjust the rangefinder on this model? as on the top plate someone has punched 3 separate holes through the leatherette, all of which have a small screw underneath, so im assuming these are 3 adjustment screws. but i do not know what each are for, and i have no wish to go poking around without knowing what im doing.

As it is close enough on most distances but it seems to slip on the focus bed when going below 2 meters and the rf patch goes beyond the wrong way and then back to the center.

Any information would be much appreciated as always.

 

[citizen99]

1] http://www.corff.de/Klappkameras/contrib/Etteldorf/Bessa_Justage.html

gives a picture which may help.

"Achtung!" here is warning you not to turn the focus closer than the normal minimum distance, after you have removed the stop-washer, as the lensboard rack will come out of it's engagement with the pinion, and it warns that re-calibration of the system is not trivial.

(However I have one of these which came with the lens a long way out of focus, yet the rangefinder itself was spot-on. Evidently this had happened to a previous owner, and it had been incorrectly re-assembled. It was not as it left the factory, as the paper disk mounting the depth-of-field disc was missing, just glue had been used.I was able let the rack emerge, turn the pinion a tooth or so as required then re-engage the rack and re-assemble. This may or may not be part of, although obviously not all of, your problem.)

2] BTW I think that FallisPhoto's posting here

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76916&goto=nextnewest

applies to your model for the conventional way of accessing the adjustments.