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Hit 500 shutter repairs last month and it changed my mind about cleaning them
I always thought you had to fully disassemble and soak every shutter curtain to get them working right. That's the popular method on this forum, I know. But after fixing about 500 of them over 4 years in my shop in Portland, I found that just blowing out the old dust and oiling the pivot points fixes 8 out of 10 shutters. People say you're cutting corners, but my success rate is the same and I save 20 minutes per camera. Anyone else have a number of repairs that made them rethink the standard way?
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ryanburns13d ago
Respectfully disagree here. I've taken apart hundreds of these things too and skipping the full clean just hides problems that show up again in 6 months. That dried out grease doesn't just blow away, it turns into a sticky mess deep inside the mechanism later. Quick fixes might pass your bench test but they dont hold up to real use.
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