[photo-3d] Re: Shutter on Wollensak 10?

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--- In photo-3d@xxxx, Peter Davis <pd@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> I just received a beautiful Wollensak 10.  It looks practically 
new, and it 
> a gorgeous cameras.  The only problem is ...
> 
> the shutter doesn't work.  I can wind the advance knob until it 
stops, cock 
> the shutter, 

The shutter should cock on the film wind, if it doesn't the linkage 
is in the bottom of the camera.

>and press the shutter button.  The frees the advance knob to 
> wind again, but the actual blade don't appear to open.  Am I 
missing 
> something?  Is there some trick?  I've tried a few different 
speeds, like 
> 1/2, B and T.  Something else I should know?

It does sound like the shutter doesn't work.  Pushing the shutter 
release does two things; it starts the shutter timer and releases the 
winding, each at a different level of the push and the order depends 
on who adjusted it last.  If you are pushing it all the way down the 
shutter should fire.  I think it is jammed.


> 
> Also, I'm curious about the lenses.  The frontmost ring on each 
lens barrel 
> unscrews.  However, on the left lens, it's just a metal ring that 
comes 
> off.  On the right, the whole lens unscrews and comes out.  Was 
this some 
> mechanism for adjusting for focus differences between the lenses?  
I don't 
> get it.

Not a differental focus adjustment..  The outer ring is there to hold 
series V filters in.  You could take them off and not affect the 
camera operation.  On the right you are taking the lens apart.  On 
the right side, hold the second ring and unscrew the outer ring, then 
tighten the second ring good and put the outer one back on, not as 
tight.
> 
> Any other good Wollensak tips or pointers?

They are great cameras, I hope you get yours working.  Jess Powell is 
suposed to be good at fixing them.  (530) 666-5334

Chuck Holzner