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  1. Nothing like 17 years to wreak havok on old cameras & URL's. I just got a 6x9 folder with Rodenstock Trinar in AGC/Gautier Prontor II shutter. FW logo on lens bed, which a small leap if logic suggests is Franka Werks (guessing because I'm not familiar with Franka and don't see a name or model on it). Usually a name is embossed on the leatherette. Rather than assuming Mr. Monaghan is retired, does anyone know if the content referenced is online/archived anywhere else? Thanks
  2. 4+ years later... I was given one of these that appears to be not original, or a different version. Other than being in poor condition (>50% leatherette is missing, big hole in bellows, rusted peeling paint on front where leatherette is missing...but elsewhere has typical bare metal where it's gone), It has a Star Rapid shutter (T,B,1-1/300) and a Rifax 7.5 cm f/3.5 lens that almost obscures the shutter name. The shutter body release lever aligns with the camera shutter button release linkage and that works, but the threads to mount a remote shutter release is blocked by the folding arm/standard structure...so it seems that shutter doesn't belong to the Zeitax camera...but Star was apparently also a pre- WWII Japanese brand. This Rifax lens seems to be associated with Balda. Lastly, is the name Gabor Szabo common? Somewhere in my basement I gave one or two Gabor Szabo (Hungarian?) jazz guitar LP's I enjoyed alot when I had a turntable set up (also in basement in a box somewhere.
  3. Thanks, Ken, John. I didn't think about the inside measurement to compare to. I took the bellows out of at least one 3A years ago, and may have had the same conversation � Last night I found an old rear frame with most if the bellows picked off. I'll compare inside & outside... I remember thinking the replacement was not an easy pre-fit in one of the cameras... and I haven't finished installing any. Lots of cool stuff I forgot I had...if buried in basement boxes = actual and not just future cool. Thank you...
  4. <p>Well, interesting. In the box were a smaller number of 29915 bellows.</p> <p>I found that one in Google, on APUG.org. Someone said that one is for one vintage of Kodak 3A, but there were several variations.</p> <p>I can't tell the difference yet...</p>
  5. hello: I bought a box of replacement folding camera bellows years ago and they just surfaced in the basement. I am pretty sure they were described as Kodak spares. They have a kraft paper band around them with the number 60320. They are about 95x153 mm at the rear, with an aluminum plate in front that has a 37 mm diameter round opening. My best guess is a postcard sized camera. I removed a bellows from a Kodak 3A once and it was close but not enough. There are 12 folds, and the max. draw is about 5"/125 mm. Any idea what they might gave been for? Thanks Murray
  6. <p>Thank you.<br /><br />I'll give it a try again.</p> <p>I don't know, and maybe it won't matter, whether it was a poor choice, but I was given a can of Mobilgrease 28 by someone, and I don't remember what convinced me to taave used some kind of synthetic grease I was given by someone who worked in an aerospace industry andke a chance with it.<br /><br />It''s least important quality is its ruby red color. I think the first rescued camera I tried it on was an Agfa with the notorious green 'cement' lube.<br /><br />http://www.mobil.com/Colombia-English/Lubes/PDS/GLXXENGRSMOMobilgrease_28.aspx</p>
  7. <p>Hello:</p> <p>I'm hoping someone can help me out.<br> I have a mid-30's Kodak Retina I picked up for $1.22 plus tax.</p> <p>I cleaned the hazy lens cells, got the focus helicoid freed up & went to reinstall the shutter into the helicoid<br> and made two stupid mistakes.</p> <p>1) I screwed the shutter body in to check it would go in OK, but I didn't not have the focus 'ring' or 'stop screw' installed, so I couldn't remove it...the shutter and moveable helicoid in the front standard just kept spinning. Probably 30 minutes later I figured out a way to remove it again.<br> 2) I put the focus 'ring' and stop screw in and now cannot thread the shutter and standard helicoids together.<br> Another half hour later, I think I realized I didn't pay attention to the orientation of anything. I think I need to know what orientation the moving helicoid should be in and how to get the shutter body threaded back in. I must have been lucky the first time.<br> Anyone know the proper way (orientation) to put the shutter back onto the standard?</p> <p>Thank you</p> <p>Murray</p>
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