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I'm team old-school grease over synthetic for shutter work
Been fixing cameras for about 12 years now, and I keep hearing people say synthetic lubricants are the way to go on everything. Last month I tried it on a Pentax Spotmatic's slow speed escapement and had to redo the whole job three days later cause the timing was off. Swapped back to a tiny dab of vintage Nye grease and it ran smooth as ever. Anyone else find certain jobs just don't take well to the new stuff?
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the_charles15d agoMost Upvoted
Had pretty much the exact same thing with an old Nikon F. The synthetic stuff just made everything feel gritty after a week. Went back to what I've been using on those older shutters and it's been fine ever since.
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ellis.hayden15d ago
Has anyone else found that synthetic just doesn't bond right to certain old metal parts? I remember restoring a beat up Yashica Mat 124G and the shutter speeds were all over the place with modern stuff. A tiny bit of that thick Nye grease on the slow speed cams and it went back to butter. Sometimes I think these new lubricants are too thin and just run off or get sticky in weird ways.
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