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[Brazile]

This is fascinating. Thanks for taking us along.

[scott]

This is fascinating. Thanks for taking us along.

Lol, thanks Robert. I'm having fun with it - glad it's somewhat interesting.

Question for y'all: do you sonicate shutters? I'm looking at Mike Eckman's repair notes, and he's a dip-and-dunk kinda guy. I have never flushed a shutter. I do have a small sonicator for when I needed to pull escapements. He literally drops them in solvent, swishes them around, then shakes them out several times. I'm tempted with this one. And since I have the low output sonicator, seems like a decent application. Have a large can of camp fuel in the garage, hmm...

Thoughts?

[EDIT]
Have read a bunch of threads. Have two separate places who show the flushing process with naptha. I'm thinking the shutter will go into a Cheese Whiz jar of naphtha, and the closed jar into the sonicator. Run a few cycles, drain, repeat. See where that gets me. Here's where I'm starting:

[Brazile]

I have been tempted a few times but haven't tried it yet. Will be interested to see your experience if you go through with it.

[Julio1fer]

Should work if you can get the shutter blades thoroughly dry afterwards. Maybe dunk in a very light solvent as a last pass before drying with air. Watching your progress with interest!