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Tried ultrasonic cleaning vs hand cleaning a stuck shutter, no contest
Had a beat up Canon AE-1 Program with a shutter that was sticking at 1/1000. Spent an hour with q-tips and lighter fluid getting nowhere. Threw it in my $80 ultrasonic cleaner with some warm water and dish soap for 3 cycles and the shutter snapped right back to life. Has anyone else gotten better results from one method over the other for stubborn leaf shutters?
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gibson.seth13d ago
Oh man, I gotta jump in here. @hugos67 is right about old lubricants getting wrecked, but here's the angle I don't see anyone talking about: the type of dirt matters just as much. I had a sticky leaf shutter on a Mamiya that was gunked up with that old school grease that had turned into something like dried honey. Hand cleaning just smeared it around worse. The ultrasonic broke it loose but I found out the hard way you gotta follow up with a dry cycle or compressed air or that loosened gunk just resettles in the blades and makes the problem come back in a week. Did anyone else have to re-clean theirs a second time after the first ultrasonic bath?
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