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This is fascinating. Thanks for taking us along.

Brazile wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 8:01 am

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:

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.

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!