How to Fix Your Horizon’s Stuck Shutter

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For some reason, most likely due to a mechanical shock, the shutter of your Horizon camera got stuck. Do not despair for you’re about to find out how to fix it.

Credits: stouf

What you will need:

  1. A Horizon camera with a stuck shutter
  2. A small screwdriver
  3. Pliers
  4. Small scissors (if like me, you don’t own a proper spanner wrench)

Instructions

First, using the scissors as a spanner wrench, unscrew the bubble level.

Then remove the winding lever. To do so, start by unscrewing the little screw hidden under it. This will free the plastic cover of the lever. Then unscrew the flat-headed screw holding the lever CLOCKWISE using your scissors. Remove the lever and unscrew the hollow screw that was under it.

Unscrew the shutter button using pliers. Unscrew all 6 screws holding the camera’s front (2 screws) and back (4 screws) plastic covers. Loosen the two rings under the camera, no need to remove them entirely.

You can now remove the back plastic cover of your camera. It is tricky and you should go smoothly without forcing too much. Pull the left-hand-side of the cover while sliding rightwards, pushing a part of the cover under the hinges of the door (that’s where some resistance will come from).

Pull on one of the hinges to remove the door. To remove the front cover, pull on it while pressing on the rewind button to help it pass under the cover.

You’re Horizon is now naked. I guess you can fix other problems than a stuck shutter at this point, but you’ll probably need to refer to the exploded view of the camera that was provided with it.

Your shutter gets stuck when the little lever marked ‘A’ in the photo is not properly pushed when you crank the winding lever. Using a small screwdriver, lift and push lever ‘A’ to its GOOD position as shown on the right-hand side of the photo. To avoid this from the reoccurring, press and bend lever ‘A’ downwards as much as you can. When lever ‘A’ is in a good position, the shutter button is freed and can be pressed as before.

You have just fixed your Horizon camera, she'll reward you for that.

Credits: stouf

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written by stouf on 2014-04-24 #gear #tutorials #diy #camera #repair #tipster #horizon #shutter #fix #stuck

10 Comments

  1. vicuna
    vicuna ·

    Merci l'ami @stouf pour ce tutoriel très précis!

  2. vgzalez
    vgzalez ·

    Insanely great!

  3. stouf
    stouf ·

    @vicuna Merci à toi cher ami! : ) @vgzalez Thank you so much! Hope someone will save a Horizon thanks to this.

  4. bigskymind49
    bigskymind49 ·

    Wow! I just sent my Horizon to New York City to be fixed. If there is a next time, I'll try this!

  5. stouf
    stouf ·

    @bigskymind49 Thanks a lot! Hopefully there won't be a next time : )

  6. luusirkkeli
    luusirkkeli ·

    I just repaired my Horizon Perfekt with these instructions! Thanks!

  7. stouf
    stouf ·

    @luusirkkeli You made my day!

  8. aengusilvagabondo
    aengusilvagabondo ·

    Unfortunately my Horizon s3 pro has blocked the shutter but using this system does not work, the levers are already in the right position. I can arm the shutter only by holding the lever below the rewinding

  9. wreckingpress
    wreckingpress ·

    This may have just saved my bacon.
    They didn't show there is another stop point on the other side as well. both have adjustable stop points and can be adjusted if, like in my case the shutter lever was fine but pushing the adjustment a little to close it a little tighter seemed to have made the difference. Also, a small snap ring tool will be a far better tool for the smaller spanner needs than scissors and a lens spanner can be had for reasonable on ebay or amazon.

  10. huneprut
    huneprut ·

    Do you know if this will fix my shutter, if it's not closing fully.
    The shutter fires as it should, but when I wind on, as the shutter swings past I can see that it isn't fully closed, which causes the film to be exposed everytime I wind on...
    Do you know what causes this? Thanks.

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