[LargeFormat] wollensak optimo

[Les Newcomer]

Been lurking on the Graflex.org site eh?

at best it's a short term fix, and i disagree with the main proponent of
this advice. He claims that lighter fluid is a highly volitile liquid, I say
it leaves a film behind. a gummy film.

One of the things this caims to fix is oil on leaves. It doesn't I had a
gummy shutter and I could douse it with laquer thinner and it would soften
the oil, but since it didn't removed it, it would be back sticking again
inside a week.

les
> From: "Scot" <kamandscot@attbi.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 19:13:23 -0800
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: [LargeFormat] wollensak optimo
> 
> A while back I got a old Woolensack Optimo Shutter with a Kodak no 4 lens.
> 
> The lens is real nice but the shutter only seems to fire at one speed. It
> doesn't seem to trip the timer. I can't figure how to get this thing open to
> look at the innards, anyone ever gotten into these before? There is a small
> nib that unscrews to reveal a small brass rod with a hole in the end of it.
> Is this supposed to attach to something inside? It isn't in my lens.
> 
> Also a LF search I found that someone soaked these old lenses in lighter
> fluid to ungum them (after removing the elements). Are the shutter leaves
> and other what nots in the older lenses all capable of withstanding this
> treatment?
> 
> Thanks,
> Scot
> 
> 
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