A guy at the camera swap meet in Tacoma last month said something about shutter lubricant that's been bugging me.

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Honestly I used to think shutter lube was just old-timer talk. Then my old Nikon FE started getting sticky at slow speeds, like 1/30th was a total crapshoot. A tiny drop of the right stuff on the pivot points and it's smooth as butter now. That guy was onto something, it's a real fix for a specific problem.

vera_dixon891mo ago

Saw a repair tech on YouTube basically say the same thing. He called it "the slow speed shutter cure" for a specific kind of dried-up grease. It's not for every shutter noise or issue, but for that one sticky slow speed problem, it's basically magic. People get scared of the word "lube" because they picture oil gunking everything up. The trick is using the tiniest amount of the right solvent-type fluid in the exact spot. Glad your FE is running right again, those are sweet cameras.