I picked up a Coronet "3-D" camera (their quotes). It was in total working condition, but then I messed with it too much. So I had to un-stick the shutter pin. Apparently shutter *pins* were all the rage for a while there .. don't ask me why. Seriously, look at cameras from the forties and you'll see shutter pins everywhere.
So anyways, I pulled off the face of the thing so I could look at the shutter apparatus. I applied tons of trimmer oil (this is why you keep that little bottle when you get a new trimmer) and did some screwdriver prying, and did some pulling with jewelers' pliers. (Everyone should own a set of jewelers' pliers, btw .. and a good pair of diags.)
So what was the best way to unstick the shutter pin? After all that, you just gotta pretend you're James Dean with a soft-pack of cigarettes. Holding the camera with your right hand, smack it into the crook of your left hand. The pin is the cigarette in this scenario, and it ends up popping out very swankily.
Seriously. Save the oil for another camera project. You just gotta smack this one firmly and the pin pops out. Probably. I hope. But it never hurts to have a bit of trimmer oil, I guess.
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