Got some bad advice from a guy at a camera shop in Portland

Some old timer at Pro Photo Supply told me to use WD-40 on a stuck shutter blade. Said he'd been doing it for 30 years. Turned my Minolta SRT-201 into a greasy mess that took me 3 hours with isopropyl alcohol to fix. Has anyone else run into a cleaner that actually works for sticky blades without wrecking everything?

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wadew517d ago

Ronsonol lighter fluid cleaned my Pentax blades in like 2 minutes flat.

wendy1316d ago

@gibson.avery has a good point about naphtha cleaners, but "like 2 minutes flat" might be pushing it a bit. Even with Ronsonol, you need to be careful not to soak the blades too much, or it can seep into other parts of the shutter mechanism. Just a dab and a gentle wipe is the safer way to go.

gibson.avery7d ago

Yeah @wadew51 is totally right about Ronsonol. I've used it on a beat up Kodak Retina and it cleared the blades without leaving any residue. WD-40 is the worst thing you can put near a shutter, that guy should have known better. Naphtha based cleaners like lighter fluid just evaporate clean.