After 3 weeks of fighting a sticky shutter on a Canon AE-1 from a Tucson flea market, I finally got it firing clean at every speed

Ruby Jackson · 2026-10-11T22:35:03.926507+00:00

Turns out the mirror bumper foam had turned to goo and was dragging on the curtain, and a $2 sheet of closed cell foam cut with an X-Acto fixed what two rounds of lighter fluid could not, so now I want to know what other old foams you all check first before tearing into the gears.

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After 3 weeks of fighting a sticky shutter on a Canon AE-1 from a Tucson flea market, I finally got it firing clean at every speed | Camera Repairers - Pinecone Attack