mike_j
nobbut a beginner
Reged: 23/08/2005
Posts: 1271
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I'm just about to start a strip down and possible repair on an epsilon shuttered early MPP Microcord. It has four problems (excluding me and my screwdriver):
very dull mirrors which really need resilvering
focus knob does not move front panel
wind mechanism doesn't work
shutter only has one speed - very slow
This camera was part of a job lot bought at auction several years ago which included a severely broken Microflex and a largely dismantled Minolta Autocord. I think I paid £12 for the lot and sold the other two on ebay for £17 as spares so the Microcord doesn't owe me much but I'd like to be able to use it.
I have been googling for manuals and information, (the name Rog_Prov cropped up a few times in the results)but no substantial information so armed with a Rolleicord service manual and a big hammer I'm about to start dismantling.
Anyone here with practical experience that I can contact for help if things go pear shaped?
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Roger_Provins
Made-it Man
Reged: 22/10/2005
Posts: 2627
Loc: Gloucester, UK
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Mike, your best bet is probably to contact the MPP users' club There are many knowledgeable folk there and I'm sure you'll get help. I've a huge pile of the MPP Gazette magazine back numbers - but not to hand - I will look through them over the weekend to see if there's any articles helpful to your project - let you know if I find anything.
(The Rog_Prov you found is me - though you must have guessed that  )
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mike_j
nobbut a beginner
Reged: 23/08/2005
Posts: 1271
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Hi Roger,
Yes, I did suspect that it was you 
Anyway, the patient is doing well. I have taken the side plates off, removed the old grease and relubricated sparingly with a a non migrating light grease. The mirror has cleaned remarkably well with my dSLR sensor cleaning stuff. The wind problem is a broken spring so I have made a new one, the focus problem was simply a loose collet. Shutter has come back to life so I will leave well alone, I'm not too worried about cleaning and relubing leaf shutters but don't do it for fun.
Main problem on reassembly will be undoing damage caused during a previous 'repair' by someone. One drilled out screw, several burred heads and leatherette liberally stuck on with evostick. Nothing major, just a nuisance.
So in the near future I will further increase my reputation for eccentricity wandering around shooting a test film with a TLR.
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beejaybee
Marvin
Reged: 18/07/2007
Posts: 4245
Loc: Really Here In Name Only
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So in the near future I will further increase my reputation for eccentricity wandering around shooting a test film with a TLR.
Good for you.
I like to do things like that, too, preferably somewhere there are lots of people with digicams around ... some of them even take a polite interest in kit that's older than me 
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Mojo_66
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 25/05/2006
Posts: 3137
Loc: Lancs
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And some just point and laff.....
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beejaybee
Marvin
Reged: 18/07/2007
Posts: 4245
Loc: Really Here In Name Only
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And some just point and laff.....
See if I care
I get my share of laffs back at those people who try to take photos of scenery half a mile away in poor light, relying on the weak flash built into their matchbox sized digicam, peering into a tiny screen held at arm's length and being buffetted around by a gale. 
At least I get sharp pictures.
Edited by beejaybee (09/12/2007 20:36)
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Mojo_66
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 25/05/2006
Posts: 3137
Loc: Lancs
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Far more fun using a TLR too!
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mike_j
nobbut a beginner
Reged: 23/08/2005
Posts: 1271
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Two images from the first (and very probably last) roll through the recently repaired Microcord. It's all too much trouble to use I'm afraid, I'll stick to my M6
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El Sid
Going potty
Reged: 14/04/2003
Posts: 9160
Loc: Sussex-by-the-Sea
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Is that Marloborough?....
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Nigel
Completely BSRIPN 
ElSid Gallery
A camera in the hand is better than one in the cupboard........
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LargeFormat
old hand
Reged: 24/10/2006
Posts: 979
Loc: Buckinghamshire and Cumbria
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It's all too much trouble to use I'm afraid, I'll stick to my M6
Some people don't know they've been born. and after all that work.
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mike_j
nobbut a beginner
Reged: 23/08/2005
Posts: 1271
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Is that Marloborough?....
No, Stamford in Lincolnshire
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El Sid
Going potty
Reged: 14/04/2003
Posts: 9160
Loc: Sussex-by-the-Sea
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Isn't it funny how two places can have some similarities. There's a cafe-cum-book shop on the river at Marlborough that looks remarkably like the building at the extreme right of the first picture...
Never been to Stamford. I think the only place in Lincolnshire I've been is Grimsby... and it rained... a lot........ 
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Nigel
Completely BSRIPN
ElSid Gallery
A camera in the hand is better than one in the cupboard........
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