Viewmaster Camera worth fixing?

[P3D <PgWhacker@xxxxxxx>]

   I need a diagnosis for my sick Viewmaster Personal camera .  The 
film-wind-stop isn't working.  The instructions stamped on the bottom of 
the camera say the VP is supposed to wind sort of like a realist:  you 
take a snapshot, then wind the advance-the-film knob until a lock-up 
mechanism won't let you wind any more.  Take another snap, wind again, 
etc.

    My newly acquired VP mostly works fine.  It winds, cocks the shutter, 
and takes a picture no trouble.   But the wind-stop mechanism isn't 
working.  You just wind and wind and wind without knowing when to stop 
winding or where you are in the roll.

Question:

    Anyone familiar with this problem?  

     Easy or hard (read: affordable/expensive) to get fixed?

    Who would you get to fix it?     (I'd rather not do it myself  -- 
when I take things apart and put them back together, I always end up with 
parts left over.)

TIA,

Greg







Greg Kane
Denver

PgWhacker@xxxxxxx





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