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Fixed a Pentax 67 mirror lock-up that had me stuck for a week
This old Pentax 67 came in with the mirror stuck up, and the owner said two other shops gave up on it. I spent maybe six hours total over three days just staring at the mechanism, cleaning old grease. The win was finding a tiny, bent spring in the mirror box linkage that a previous repair had put in wrong. Straightened it with tweezers, re-lubed the tracks, and it snapped back like new. The look on the guy's face when he picked it up was worth the headache. Has anyone else had a 'simple' mirror issue turn into a deep dive on a 6x7?
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keithgibson13d ago
Classic Pentax 67 rabbit hole.
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parkermorgan13d ago
Used to think these were just big SLRs until @keithgibson and posts like this showed me the weird little puzzles inside.
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