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RZ67II: Scraping Broken Fine Focus Gear Teeth From Main Gear

Originally posted on Instagram. Notes from the repair bench, kept here as a searchable archive. View the original on Instagram

Servicing a Mamiya RZ67II body. Replacing a broken fine focus gear. When the gear teeth break, they become embedded in the metal main focus gear and often need to be scraped out of the teeth. The third photo shows the fine focus gear lifted away from the body on its shaft and you can see the stuck particles from in the teeth of the main focus gear.

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