steven jackson

I saw this for sale and wondered who bought it. I could find nothing about this motor anywhere.

Does this shutter timing hold true for a 144 degree shutter??

I have an ARRI FSZ synchronizer for sale cheap if that is useful

Hi Chris, yes it is.

cool! Thanks for the info!

This is how my az spectrum serviced motor now behaves. Stops dead in viewing position each time. Camera looks like it is running great to me.

If you take the cover off, held on by two screws, you would be able to see if there's any of the shaft left or whether it has been broken off. If all you need to do is make up a new inching knob and fix it to the shaft, you're probably in good shape, but if the shaft is broken I think you're out of luck.

Boris Belay would be a good person to respond to this! I’m sure he has seen how the shaft coming off the motor is set up.

I’m not sure where Bernie would have gotten a CO2 type laser but I imagine to remove material from a glass surface it would have to be something that’s rather sophisticated like that, if that’s even what he was doing . I’m just guessing.

Do let us know how it works out. We're all a curious lot here.

Perhaps the laser is used to refine the micro-pebbled ground glass surface.

I would agree with Duncan that this camera in it's current state is not something you need to fire sale to get rid of. The kinoptik viewfinder alone has a fair amount of value (somewhere around $1000, I reckon), as do the magazines and body. So just as parts, it's valuable, but these cameras have a fairly simple and beautifully designed mechanism that's not terribly complicated to service and I would bet that this camera could be up and running in no time. The stinker is the motor. The original motors are very well built and generally reliable but they are getting old and the typical issue comes from the circuitry starting to fail. To say they are hard to find would be an understatement. Typically, a good starting point would be to remove the magazine and turn the camera over manually to see if it feels difficult to turn or has points where it feels like it's binding. If it's not turning over easily and smoothly, then I would not power it up. The problem is that your motor no longer has an inching knob to advance the mechanism, so not sure how you can accomplish that. This is a factor that would reduce the value of the whole kit as the motor is damaged.

It could be argued that it might not be good for the camera or motor to run it if it's just been sitting for 10 years and perhaps many years more that it has last seen a service. I would imagine those lubricants have hardened a bit.

I have run across one other HD motor that did not have mirror parking but the circuitry will surely be present in the base to accommodate a motor with the parking feature. The absence of the inching knob would be problematic on this one…but I do happen to know where a nice HD motor for this camera can be had! 😆

Typically the meter is always on once the switch is on, but maybe this is a late development. Serial number is 2947. Is the inching knob sheared off or is this yet another type of setup I've never seen.