Hi all,
At my friends I found two wooden shutters, one is this Thornton Pickard shutter which had the curtains in pretty bad shape but every else was working fine.
It has been a very long project, since I opened and check all pieces it passed several months, first I ordered curtains from Japan but then I found soviet curtains (thicker) than the Japanese ones. Being this my first project wit such shutter and materials I decided to go for the soviet ones, I checked dimensions from the original and I transferred to the new... All went fine except the part I broke the original string while trying the final tests, now it has one cheap I found but I'm looking for a nicer...
Drawing the new curtains.
The cut.
Left roller.
Right roller second part.
Almost done.
Thornton Pickard shutter.
Speeds are far to be fine, lowest is correct 1/15sec but fastest I only get 1/30sec, maybe the curtains are heavy?
Pretty happy and it's quiet easy once you get the movements, now the Cooke-Voigtlander Anastigmat is waiting
Thank you for looking,
Alex
Thornton Pickard shutter - new curtains.
- PFMcFarland
- Super Member
- Posts: 2407
- Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:02 pm
- Contact:
Re: Thornton Pickard shutter - new curtains.
Nice restoration, Alex. Using the thicker Russian curtain material may be the culprit on your speeds.
PF
PF
Waiting for the light
Re: Thornton Pickard shutter - new curtains.
Wow - Excellent job. I'm truly impressed.
I have a very old Zeiss Ikon Miroflex with shutter curtains that are almost transparent. I've looked at disassembly, and it seems very difficult.
I have a very old Zeiss Ikon Miroflex with shutter curtains that are almost transparent. I've looked at disassembly, and it seems very difficult.
-Mike Elek
Re: Thornton Pickard shutter - new curtains.
Thank you, Phil and Mike.
Mike, Ruslan has a Miroflex, I don't know how to make it work and I'm pretty sure he would allow me to take a look, it's a good chance for a pictorial for you
Mike, Ruslan has a Miroflex, I don't know how to make it work and I'm pretty sure he would allow me to take a look, it's a good chance for a pictorial for you
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests