[pure-silver] Help?! Minolta Autocord

Hi all,

I just developed two films, taken at some spectacular waterfalls in the Rocky 
Mountains, and found that I had five images on each (of a possible 12).  The 
culprit was my trusty
Minolta Autocord TLR, which seems to have decided that it will only fire when 
it feels like it.  This is my usual camera, and it has behaved impeccably for 
the year and a half that it
has lived with me.

I opened it up to look at the lens from behind, and did some "dry" shooting, 
and while the shutter always sounds like it releases, it only opens 
sporadically.  I was not able to find
a way to make it fire every time, or not fire every time.  The missing (or 
present) pictures on the developed films appear to be completely random.

As I see it, we could go into counselling, or I could start ripping it open.  
Before I do the latter, I want to ask the assembled brain trust here for any 
suggestions or ideas.

Leigh

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