Everybody Needs a Hobby

I bought a German rangefinder from about 1956, with a lovely little 48mm f/2, and a classic Synchro-Compur shutter. See:

http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Argus_V-100

It's actually something called an Iloca 'Rapid' from 1956, built in Hamburg and rebadged as the top-of-the-line Argus.

Rangefinder is in wonderful shape, photocell is dead, the shutter speeds sound 'off', but hey.

And I find myself seriously contemplating opening up the shutter to clean it. The front elements just unscrew; that in itself is some fraction of the way in...

Oh, and look - conveniently enough, the internets provide complete instructions:

http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/synchro-compur.html

I have a reasonable set of tools (check); my corner CVS stocks lighter fluid (check)...



...somebody needs to talk me out of this....