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Just wasted 3 hours on a sticky aperture blade that wasn't sticky

Spent all morning cleaning a Canon FD 50mm that kept hesitating at f/8, turned out the grease on the cam ring had turned into glue after sitting in a hot storage unit. Anybody else ever chase a phantom oil problem for way too long?
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hill.david
A sticky aperture blade is annoying but 3 hours is a bit much.
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wendy_bell83
Three hours means your shutter curtain is also dragging or the mirror is sticking on its way up.
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