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[Antonandreas]

Hello,
 
Many web searches led me to this forum while trying to learn how to CLA the Karat 36.  Thank you for the information.
 
This is the first camera I am attempting a CLA with, so I am a little unsure of myself on this one, but decide

[Leesobing]

you mean how to op-eration or resetting the finder?
 
what wrong you camera?

[Leesobing]

MANULS
http://www.butkus.org/chinon/karat_36/karat_36.htm
setting  
https://kyp.hauslendale.com/classics/forum/messages/2/14867.html?1237811336
hope help you

[Scott]

I have restored a couple of Karats, but it's been a year or so. Wish I could give you some specific tips, but I don't recall exactly where the two adjusting screws are, but as you perhaps already know, there is usually one screw that adjusts t

[Antonandreas]

Leesobing - thank you for those resources.
 
Scott - Thank you for the information.  When you mean the top cover, you mean opening up the small compartment above the rangefinders and not just the top top cover, correct?

[Scott]

Well, top cover usually means the whole metal piece that covers the entire top of the camera body. On the Karat, when you remove the top cover, you can see the whole shutter-cocking mechanism and RF unit.
 
On some 1960 and 1970s RF cameras,

[Antonandreas]

Thank you for clearing that up.  I do have the top cover off, so I will just have to screw around (ha!) figuring out which ones calibrates the rangefinder.
 
would a picture help jog your memory?
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[Scott]

Sorry, I can't recall exactly where the tro adjusting screws are on mine.  
 
I do recall that the RF mechanism comes off as a intact unit. It is held down by 2 or 3 screws. It also covers the shutter-cocking gear train, and has to be taken off