Hasselblad 500C/M: Reassembly, Part 4
Transcript
I was having trouble spinning this nose around. It’s not in the zero position yet, but it’s not going to do until… this is where… this is what’s blocking it right here. What I tend to do is just back it out. This should be sitting right there.
You bring the nose around this direction. I don’t know what it’s called, for Hasselblad, but my mentors call it the nose. And there — it spins around. There it is.
That should hit and it should stop; boom. Alright, so now I can go ahead and put the system back on.
What I do, I go ahead and [create] tension — one, two, three, four and that’s tight. I mean it’s I’m really kind of bearing down to stop it from untensioning [unwinding]. So you have to grip it, put your finger there, and I’m shooting for something to this effect, when it goes in there. Then everything will rotate. Everything will back up. The gear should hit right in [between] those two teeth, plus hold that down. Sometimes, these go super easy; sometimes they can be a real pain.
I go in and push the mirror latch down right there, so this has to come over, because it has got to clear this little lip piece here. Comes over — not like that — like that. Once it goes in — see all that just made that slip — so doesn’t like to back up. Okay, I just lost that. Almost… [clicking sound] … I think it’s there. There!
Alright, so that’s my position for the timing on the Hasselblad. It’s not tensioned yet. We still gotta’ put tension on here. This system does have tension on it. Alright, so like to go ahead and put a screw on the bottom here to keep everything in place.
These two screws up here, they’re kind of flat, they’re not as tall as these other two. These other, it’s kind of a fat tall head you see, these get mixed up actually every once in a while.
It’s got nice foam in there and the foam’s gonna’ not want to let me get these in. And there’s one. Let’s see — when one goes in the other one, the other usually goes pretty easy. Okay, let’s get the front on there.
Time? Yeah, I think I’m pretty close on the money. My fine tuning will come through these two right here, the plate can shift. It’s got a little bit of movement there, alright. That’s actually looking pretty good.
What I want to do is put some grease where the grease needs to go. Put a slightly lighter grease on it instead of this heavy stuff. Just a little lighter. Okay, now let’s just slather it on everything. Get that blob out of there. I want to make sure this has lubrication. You see these things just get smothered in grease. Okay, so there, there, and a little bit on this side. Okay, get a little bit on this tip. That’s where B comes into place.
Alright, let’s go ahead and get the lever in here. Release lever. Itty, bitty bit of crease in there, just to give it a little bit of movement. This guy gets some down here. Okay, the hole right there — it [the lever’s wire] needs to go through the hole, the wire does.
Put that in and this guy’s gonna go here and drop there. Alright, which lever we get, I think they call this like the S lever.
[Add] a little bit of grease. The collar goes on it, since that kind of wobbles, the collar goes on next. [Some mumbling to himself about swapping screws, then deciding not to.]
Okay, large spring is going to go on. Spring should go on here. It’s going to hook. This is your S lever which is also the mirror-up lever. [The lever wire] will go on this side, [then] that side, [then] all the way around then it’s going to hook onto this post. This guy’s going to hook on to the release lower here; boom. I probably should have put that guy in first, but I didn’t. I’ll get him later.
Put a screw down here in the corner. We can actually time this guy. Yeah, I think we’re there.
What I’m gonna’ do is put my finger in there, I’m gonna’ hold the mirror lever from popping out. You don’t want to pop it out [and] pop that spring off. Put the washer down.
Grease this guy; he’d be surprised how many times I see people without grease on that. It’s just kind of staggering, actually, how many times I see that. This guy needs to be right about here, should be right about there, and this guy should be here. You want it [so that] no teeth are sticking out.
I want to go ahead and put that down. Everything [will] just drop into place. Tighten that [screw].
We can start to tension the system here. Here is my special tensioning tool. Okay, so that’s my handmade tool. I use this instead of chewing up my fingers or scratching the crap out of the plate under here because people put tweezers through here and they get scratched under there all the time.
[Gonna’ pop up, check my video make sure it’s not running too long. We’re still going good.]
I need to continue tensioning this because it’s not really gonna’ drive the barn doors up. I’m going to go ahead and push the mirror-up lever — boom — [when I] release the mirror up, the barn doors, as you can, see didn’t have enough oomph, so we’re going to go ahead and put another charge on there.
What we want to do is reach through here. We want to kick the lever, mirror goes up, barn door did not release. So now it’s got another turn [of tension]. [When I] do that again, boom! [The] mirror goes up, the barn doors didn’t release. Once more — the mirror up, no barn doors.
We should be somewhere around where we need to be [with the tensioning]. I think that was about three. Boom! Mirror up. Barn doors open. Down, nice snappy loud ring [that] rattles your ears. And there we go. We’re about where we need to be. It sounds snappy; it sounds quick.
I’m gonna’ put the release bar in here. We’re gonna’ check. At this point what I tend to do is to put a few more of these screws in the outside. I do that before I start doing some of my adjustments because if I don’t and if there’s any play in here — you can see that gear moving as I squish it — that’s just gonna’ mess with your timing. Put a few screws in to make it nice and solid. These over here aren’t so important.
Let me get this guy in. I should have done this before, but I didn’t. Maybe because I’m distracted doing the video. I get to do some stuff, but sometimes I’ll go in. [muttering Come on, difficult.] It’s gonna’ be a pain. Oh, come on! [I need to] push this guy out of the way a little bit, so I can get my screw started.
Nope. There are a few ways of getting a screw in here. It’s just tucked in behind the lever and my fingers are all in the way, and it’s magnetized. There we go. [I should have] done that a long time ago. That’s something I should’ve done earlier. [Let’s] charge it again. Set your mirror up; boom!
We’re gonna’ hook the spring, put it on the rod — oops! — [it] just slipped out and came unhooked. Usually, they don’t have a problem. Usually they’re pretty good.
Let me give you an idea of where it’s going. This guy here is going to go into that little hole right there. You want to get it into the hole, and then that’s going to come through that little slot right there. You just got to kind of slightly bend it. I mean it’s just flexing; it’s not bending. I don’t like to say “bend” too much. People get in and bend the crud out of all this stuff; they bend these levers and then they wonder why this thing doesn’t work right. [That’s got] a nice feel to it. Whoops. There we go. I think we’re in pretty good shape here.
I’m going to go ahead and put on this lever here, which is going to go in here and it’s going to go this direction, but we need a spring on it first.
Put the spring down, get it hooked, put the lever down and get a little bit of grease on it. Don’t need a ton on [the spring]. Actually, I want a little [grease] down here where it makes contact. [There’s] lot of rubbing down in this area and maybe a little bit [of grease] where the spring does roll up against it. Let me get my hook. With my hook, there we go [attaching it].
Now I can start looking at some of the timing issues I ‘ve got going here and see if there’s any timing that’s out [of sync]. I want to look here and make sure that’s pointing to the red. That is so close, I’m not even going to worry about it. This guy here needs to be no over travel, that’s in just about perfect. It just went in really nice.
There should be a small gap right here. This cannot be up against that, or it will give you problems. It’s about right. We’re in pretty good shape.
The gear here is out just a little bit; I think I may be off a tooth —just trying to think — yeah, I think I’m off a tooth here. This is sticking out on full charge. It shouldn’t. So, we’re going to lift that gear and we’re going to run that around. Hopefully we can do that without losing tension, but if we do, it’s not that big of a deal. We can go ahead and put tension back on it.
Once again, we push the mirror up; now I can push the barn door up. I can go ahead and I can put my finger to hold the screw. We can get this re-timed here. I don’t have to do a full re-timing, just lift it up. Rotate it one tooth. Set it down. That’s really what it was — just one tooth out.
That’s pretty much the Hasselblad. I’m going to check time now. We’re pretty much coming up on around 20 minutes. 20 minutes is about what my phone will handle.
The other thing I want to check, one last thing— not a lot of people have this tool — but this is my adjustment tool, and it’s got little steps in it. I don’t know how well you can see that. What we want to do is, we want to put it up here on the solid. We want to come down to the sections. We want to charge it first. You should push it in and right now, that’s not perfect because that shouldn’t release. It shouldn’t release until I slide this along to there. We’re slightly out [of adjustment], so I’ll get that all fixed up and we can see how that works there. It’s just — nope actually it may have been bad — let’s see.
Just a hair; we’re so close, I’m not even going to worry about it. I would start to bend this lever; you won’t ever have to bend this lever. Don’t just grab it and tweak the crap out of it. What you want to do is just gently move it here. You don’t want to bend up here. You want to bend it just here a hair, just a little bit.
Then this guy here, for the release? You’re gonna’ bend just here at the base, just a little bit. This is the lever I see bent the most, and because it does the releasing, but most of the time I just have to straighten these out. People just do all kinds of things. They get their pliers in and they’re twisting and — “Oh, let’s see, if I bend this, it’ll make it work,” —so most of the time I have to undo all of that and make these straight again and then work. Release then boom.
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