Re: Gundlach 5x7 Rapid Symmetrical W.A.

Seems that the old shutter blades and iris diaphragm were removed. The
shutter lever release was still banging around at the top because it
was captive by virtue of a swaged in pin that prevented it's non-
destructive removal.

The slot at the bottom is apparently for the former stop-adjusting
lever. The one at the was for the shutter release.

Shutter speed was set by a rotating ring, still there, but nothing to
couple to.

The scales are still interesting. I was wrong about 6.2-45. It said
6.2 - 64 and sideways 45S across two scales. The second scale has a 1
2 3 4 5 crammed very close together above the roughly 22-64 postion of
the f-stop scale. the t-stop between 32 and 64 is '44'.

Lastly, the W.A. marking is way down by the 6.2 on the lower f-stop
scale.

I imagine someone would have said something already if W.A. meant
something else like Weston Aperture, but I don't think he went back
that far anyway.

Anyway, there's nothing there functional but the glass. I left the
other things on for cosmetics.

Oddly, I have never been able to recognize a 'weak reflection' on more
modern lenses. On these cells it is distinctly visible.

This made real question/realize whether cement existed yet, and the
yellowish ring around the lens outer perimeter I was trying to clean
off is probably delaminating cement. This is over about the outermost
1/8" and the entire lens diameter is roughly 1.25".

I degreased it which loosened all kinds of paint inside. I think I'll
seal off the light-leaking openings at the top, repaint the interior
dead/ultra flat black & try my hand at Waterhouse stops.

Of course no mounting flange - that's an unwritten rule...

It's a Murray-rig project from here on -