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Why does nobody talk about how hard it is to fix a stuck shutter curtain on a Nikon F?
I spent 3 hours last Sunday wrestling with a sluggish shutter on my Nikon F. Everyone online just says 'use lighter fluid and exercise it'. Well, I tried that for an hour and it still stuck at 1/500. I finally had to take the whole front plate off, clean the curtain track with Q-tips, and it took another 90 minutes to get it back together. Has anyone else had to go that deep just to fix a simple sticky shutter?
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jesse844mo ago
Man, I feel your pain on that one. People always make the lighter fluid trick sound like it's some magic fix, but in my experience it's more of a band-aid than a real solution. You usually end up having to go deeper than that, especially if the curtain track has any kind of old gunk built up in there.
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tarab544mo ago
Don't you think that gunk is basically what causes half the problems with those tracks?
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