On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at 07:28 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote: > As to the slot. There are a couple of slots on the Compur used on the > Rollei Automat and MX models. One is the cocking lever. This has a tab > which is flat and parallel to the side of the shutter. It is actuated > by a ring which mounts on the shutter barrel. In the case of mine, the shutter is cocked in the conventional manner, by winding the film. > The tripping lever for the Automat is also just a tab, which is > coupled to the push button. This seems to be the case with mine. > If you have the camera disassembled far enough to get to these you can > get the front of the shutter off and do a decent cleaning job. But I haven't disassembled the camera at all: the slot is visible on the fully ASSEMBLED camera. Cheers.