That old Minolta in Cleveland that made me buy a shutter tester

Back in 2012 I had a customer bring in a Minolta SRT-101 that had sat in a basement in Cleveland for 20 years. The shutter was stuck and the light seals were basically dust. I spent a whole afternoon just cleaning the guts and figured I had it right, but the curtain was still dragging at 1/1000. That's when I realized I had been eyeballing speeds for years and never actually tested them with a shutter timer. I bought a $60 used tester that next week and it completely changed how I check every mechanical body that comes through my bench. Has anyone else gotten burned by trusting your fingers instead of a real measurement?

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