Had a weird shutter bounce on a Pentax K1000 last week

I was cleaning the mirror box for a customer in my shop in Tacoma, and after putting it back together, the shutter would fire but then bounce back open for a split second. I took the top plate off again and found a tiny spring on the governor assembly had lost its tension. I bent it back into shape with my tweezers, just a little, and it fixed the whole timing issue. Has anyone else run into a sticky governor spring on these old mechanical shutters?

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rodriguez.mia11d agoProlific Poster

That "tiny spring on the governor assembly" is such a perfect example of how the smallest thing can throw a whole system off. You see it everywhere, like how one stripped screw can make a whole cabinet door hang wrong. Makes you wonder what other little parts in our daily life are just barely holding on, right?

robert_ross9511d ago

My car's check engine light came on last week, and the mechanic said it was just a loose gas cap. The whole system freaked out over a ten cent piece of plastic not being tight enough. It's wild how much depends on those little bits of rubber and plastic that just wear out over time.

nelson.wren11d ago

Tell me about it, my whole life feels like that loose gas cap sometimes. Rodriguez.mia gets it, it's always the smallest spring ready to snap.