Recently, I found a late variant Exakta VX which needs
at least a CLA.
I love U Surplus. :)
Anyone know a good Exakta repair/restore guy?
For obvious reasons I've never needed one :-)
Exaktas are not hard to work on yourself if you feel like it. You'll need
watchmaker's screwdrivers and a pair of non-magnetic tweezers[1], but not
much else. If you want to have a go, I'll dig out the nearest model I
have an talkyou through at least getting the shutter out of the
bodyshell. There is osmething in one of Tomosy's books on dismantling
the Exakta, I can check to see which one if you want to try to find it.
[1] There is nothing more annoying than not being able to drop the screw
ehre you want it becahse it is sticking to the tweezers...
Exaktas tend to suffer from ;
Dried out lubriicant (sticking, chutter not closing fully, etc)
Cracked plastic base for the sync contact assembly (flash problems, can
also jam the shutter). This can often be stuck back together, or a new
part made.
Hardened or pingholed shutter curtains. You have to make new ones (the
material is avaialble I think).
And not much else. Unless they've been majorly misused!
-tony