Hello Everybody,
By way of an update, I received the Rollei 35 SE today. Overall I am pleased
with the condition, the lens is very clean no scratches, the shutter blades are
clean with no oil or fungus. I pulled out the lens and rotated it into
position. The aperture dial works, the speed dial seems to work as well and
viewfinder is bright and clean. The shutter also look great so no visible
problems with that.
The problem is the film wind lever will not wind, it moves about 10 mm from the
body and that is it. I tried everything I could think off but nothing helps. I
cannot tell if the light meter is working, putting a battery in makes no
difference, but I assume that is because the camera is not in a ready mode. So
I will take it to a local technician for him to take a look. According to him
this is a common problem and sometimes cannot be repaired due to a lack of
spares, so will have to see what he says.
All the best,
Louis
On Thursday, February 4, 2021, 09:30:13 AM PST, CarlosMFreaza
<cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A post in October 2020 was my last mention about Harry Fleenor's work on my
3m5F Planar:
"... I received my 3,5 F repaired by Harry Fleenor and the Planar lens frontal
group cleaned at Focal Point in Colorado. Harry did a very good job keeping in
mind the camera condition, I had bought it cheap at a local auction site, Harry
sent me the camera working fine, very smooth to shoot and to focus. More than a
decade later, I sent this camera to FFS, Braunschweig,Germany because it needed
replacement parts for the Compur shutter like the main spring and parts
replacement for the film transport mechanism; they told me the camera had a
heavy use in the far past before I bought it. It is one of my preferred Rollei
TLR cameras today..."Carlos
El mar, 2 feb 2021 a las 22:18, CarlosMFreaza (<cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>) escribió:
El mar, 2 feb 2021 a las 21:20, Hauke Fath (<hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:
"...ISTR Carlos has used another Braunschweig repair shop successfully.
Obviously, sending the camera abroad will incur customs fees as well as
Canada Post's obscene shipping cost and transport time, but you'll know
that better than I. ;)..."
Hello Hauke: I did not pay customs fees when I sent my
cameras to Germany because I wrote a note explaining they were old cameras from
German origin and they needed replacement parts no longer available in the
country (it is true), it was the reason I wanted to send them to Germany, that
I was only a cameras user, not a dealer or a seller. They accepted my
explanation and I did not pay customs fees; it was not as easy as it sounds
BTW, but I comment on the results. I'm very satisfied with the FFS work, they
did almost a miracle repairing the SL66 after the damage it suffered during the
returning trip after the first repair. FFS overhauled and repaired my SL35E,
Voigtländer VSLE 3, Rollei35S, Rolleiflex SL 66 and 2,8F and 3,5F, all of which
are working fine. Shipping costs were reasonable when I sent the cameras to
Europe and repair costs were not so expensive as you could think, anyway it is
an effort, a really complicated customs process to send cameras abroad to
repair. the payment is also complicated because FFS accepts international money
transfers from bank to bank only, It's time to enjoy the cameras, the repair
stage has finished.
Carlos
