Kodak Signet 40 Notes (07) - a photo on Flickriver

Kodak Signet 40
35mm rangefinder, USA, 1956 to 1959.

The Synchro 400 has a problem with the slow speeds so I had to open up the shutter to have a look.

Here you see the inside mechanisms.

With shutters from German Gauthier (e.g. Prontor) and Deckel (e.g. Compur) the slow speeds often are much too long or they even completely hang up.

With this US shutter it seems the other way around. All slow times did become fast. Only sometimes, when cocking the shutter, I do hear a whir and then the slow speed is Ok.

I found out that this shutter is in many respects the same as that found on the Kodak Pony 135 thanks to this album of Flickr member P F McFarland which describes solving a similar problem on its Flash 300 shutter :
www.flickr.com/photos/7699588@N07/albums/72157628464406287
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WARNING :
This image is intended as a reference for the more experienced camera service man. If you have no experience in camera repair please do yourself a favor and send your camera to a professional service shop. It would be a pity to lose a vintage camera in a failed repair attempt !

Taken on: November 26, 2019

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