P3D Re: Kodak problems

[Sid Herbage <sid@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:54 PM 5/17/99 -0600, Jeremy Illingworth wrote:
>Has anybody ever had any trouble with their Kodak's advance?  Mine
>skips a couple of frames per roll and does a one perf wide overlap on
>four or five on each roll.  Is this common?  Is there a known fix?

This same thing came up some time ago a short time after I'd finished
investigating/fixing the problem on my Kodak. This is what I posted
then if it's of any help:

Mine did the same and I was able to fix it quite simply. If you take
the bottom plate off (two screws - nothing will fly out at you), you
can see the winding mechanism at work. You will need an old film in
the camera when you turn the winding knob to make the film spocket
rotate and you'll probably have to wind and rewind the film a number
of times to see what's happening properly. (Just be sure when you
rewind not to wind the film all the way into the cassette).

This is from memory but there is a pawl on the take-up shaft axis
that acts as a ratchet (I think it's the largest lever on the shaft).
This pawl is tripped (pulled out of engagement) when you activate the
rewind lever at the bottom of the camera. The lever arm of this pawl
sits close to the front wall of the camera. In my case, it was
touching the wall and in this position was not engaging the ratchet
gear properly during winding. I glued a little piece of plastic sheet
(about .025" thick, I think)to the wall to prevent the lever going
over so far and this enabled it to engage the ratchet sufficiently.

I don't know what the fundamental problem is .... whether it is simply
wear in the mechanism .... but this has fixed the wind problem, is
simple, non-destructive and easily reversible.

... sid (sid@xxxxxxxxxx)


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