[rollei_list] Re: Rolleipistol, -fix and -meter

  • From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:01:29 -0800
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Manuel Freaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 7:27 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleipistol, -fix and -meter
I'm afraid your description could be the evidence your 3.5A MX shutter release button lost a piece like I suspected. I'm seeing a close-up about the MX front panel and the shutter release button has the regular inner thread for cable release clearly.This is a piece something similar regarding the socket for the flash cord, however the diameter is smaller; I think your camera has the little tube or cylinder(it's a part of the shutter release button!) where this piece is screwed, the little tube has an external thread, and then your camera does not have the bigger piece that secrewed in the little tube contains the thread for the cable release, I also have the 3.5 A MX exploded view in the Rollei Technical Report and can see the parts according I described them, anyway I could be interpreting something wrong, but I don't believe it; the 3.5A MX did not have registered variations for export. If your camera has a little tube or cylinder like shutter release button (similar regarding newer models buttons, except for the external thread) and it does not have a round bigger piece with the inner thread for the cable release, your camera lost this last part. The problem looks like your camera has the part 04302.00.0 lacking the part 04313.00.0.- 

Carlos
My MX will take either a standard Deckel cable release or an external thread Leica release. The shutter release button has a threaded socket for the Deckel release and an overall thread for the Leica type release. Its a good idea to use the button lock when using either type. The shutter button has a small shaft inside. If its missing the Deckel type cable release will not be able to trip the shutter unless it has an unusually long shaft. Automats built before synchronized shutters were used have a cable release socket on the right bottom corner (facing the camera), this is for the Deckel type release. This location was used later for the flash cable socket. The Deckel type release "plug" has a tapered thread. There is another type of cable release, the Kodak type, which has straight threads. On some cameras there can be a problem when threading one type into the other. Kodak threads are found on Kodak and Ilex shutters, most others have Deckel threads. 

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