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[1979pete]

Adrian:
 
I thank you very much for the info. I may give it a go, but will stop if it looks like I may damage the camera.
 
Pete

[1979pete]

The article Adrian refered me to deals with range finder calibration and didn't really help me. I have no evidence of a split image. I believe something in the optics has fallen apart. Since I'm a beginner in camera repair I need basics like removal o

[1979pete]

The article Adrian refered me to deals with range finder calibration and didn't really help me. I have no evidence of a split image. I believe something in the optics has fallen apart. Since I'm a beginner in camera repair I need basics like removal o

[Arnoldharris]

Echostech,  
 
There are not hundreds of little ball bearings in the curved tube part of the shutter release double-interlock linkage, located on the bottom plate of the camera.  
 
To be precise, there are only 10 of them, at least on all

[Arnoldharris]

Pete,
 
If you have a Vitessa-N, which has a barndoor optical unit comprising a fixed lens mounted onto the shutter, then the knob on top the kombi-plunger film advance and shutter cocking mechanism can be unscrewed.  
 
That knob typically

[1979pete]

Mr. Harris:
Can you help me with how to get the top cover off exposing the range finder mechanism and what I might look for that is causing no visable split image or range finder activity?
 
1979pete

[Arnoldharris]

Sure thing, Pete. But for starters, exactly which model Vitessa do you have, a Vitessa-T with interchangeable lenses, or one of the barndoor Vitessa models with fixed lenses?  
 
I know the Vitessa-T very well. I know the barndoor Vitessa mode

[Fmester]

Arnold,
What is the, Voightlander Vitessa T Ersatzteilliste, AK 10157? If it a repair or parts manual would tou share it?
 
Thanks, Frank

[1979pete]

Arnold:
I think my camera is an L. It is a barn door type with builtin light meter and has a range finder. I have been led to believe the range finder mechanism is same as a T. I appreciate your help.
1979pete

[Arnoldharris]

Frank, Ersatzteilliste AK 10157 is an illustrated parts list supplemented with repair instructions for the film advance and shutter release double interlocks. I got it from a UK publisher some time ago. I will share the information, but I will need so

[Fmester]

Thanks Arnold,
I just put my L back together. There was a piece of debris in the gears that advance the film. Now I have to do the top end, the viewfinder is clear (no focusing box). Everything else works great.
Yesterday I cleaned the shutter b

[Arnoldharris]

Fmester,
 
I had not ever thought of using acetone to clean shutter blades. All that I had heard is that it is useful for cleaning light meter selenium cells. Instead, I have used naptha, because of advice I have received over the years that it

[Adrian]

Arnold,  
 
Acetone will do the same job as naptha, and has the same plus points. However it attacks some plastics - those it does, it REALLY attacks - and removes many kinds of paint and surface finish. Horses for courses - in the right place([

[Arnoldharris]

Fmester,
 
Based on what Adrian has written here, I think I would avoid using any solvent stronger than naptha for flushing unwanted and non-indigineous substances off shutter blades.  
 
For that matter, now that I have pulled out a non-fu