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c/camera-repairers•oliviarobinson•14d ago

Rant: Everyone says to never touch the shutter curtain on a Leica M3, but I had to

I was in my shop in Denver last fall, and a customer's M3 had a shutter that was dragging at 1/1000th. The usual advice is to send it out, but I carefully used a tiny drop of naphtha on a cotton swab to clean the roller bearing track. It fixed the timing completely. Has anyone else had to go against the grain on a classic repair like that?

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c/farriers•oliviarobinson•16d ago

Showerthought: A client's kid asked me why horseshoes are lucky

I was finishing up on a Percheron mare in Bakersfield when the owner's 6 year old asked me that, and I gave my usual line about old iron being good for protection. The kid just looked at me and said, 'But you take the old ones off, so the luck runs out.' I've been thinking about that all week, honestly. Do you guys ever get those questions that make you stop and think about the job in a new way?

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