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Subject: hard to wind on Sputnik
Date: 2011-07-03 03:33:54
From: Mark

Hi

A friend has loaned me his Sputnik which he bought at auction and appears to be in amazing condition.

When I started to load the film I noticed it would barely moved when pulling the film over to the other spool to load it.

I took it out, tried it again. Same thing. Like molasses. Has the film spool sizes changed over the years?

Suggestions on how fix this? I don't want to put too much pressure on it.

Cheers

Mark

Subject: Re: hard to wind on Sputnik
Date: 2011-07-03 07:46:40
From: Vladimir Galkin

It might be the spring under the knob; see if you can pull the winding knob up easily to expose the spring; if you can then check to see if the spring is rusted (very common) if it is then unscrew the knob and clean/oil the spring and put back - if it is NOT rusted there might be something stuck in the winding mechanism - could be a bit of of the bakelite or something else; the nice thing about the spuds is you can take 'em apart and not worry too much about breaking 'em. I had a 'slow' winding one; and it was a spring issue; I cleaned it off with a rust remover (soaked overnight if I remember correctly) then oiled it with silicone grease (check to make sure it won't melt the bakealilte) and it works great

good luck

Vlad

--- On Sun, 7/3/11, Mark wrote:

From: Mark
Subject: [MF3D-group] hard to wind on Sputnik
To: MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 2:33 AM

Hi

A friend has loaned me his Sputnik which he bought at auction and appears to be in amazing condition.

When I started to load the film I noticed it would barely moved when pulling the film over to the other spool to load it.

I took it out, tried it again. Same thing. Like molasses. Has the film spool sizes changed over the years?

Suggestions on how fix this? I don't want to put too much pressure on it.

Cheers

Mark

Subject: Re: hard to wind on Sputnik
Date: 2011-07-03 09:38:30
From: Chuck Holzner

Mark wrote:

When I started to load the film I noticed it would barely moved when pulling the film over to the
other spool to load it.

I took it out, tried it again. Same thing. Like molasses. Has the film spool sizes changed over the
years?

Suggestions on how fix this? I don't want to put too much pressure on it.

Cheers

Mark

The most common cause of hard winding a Sput is not loading the film properly. There is a rather
wide tensioning leaf spring at each spool that rides on the film and getting it on the wrong side of
the spool and will cause it to dig into the film and make for hard winding. You want the film
coming out from under the spring edge when winding and not going under it. It is easy to get it
wrong.

Chuck Holzner