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This repair guide will show you how to replace the shutter in your Polaroid camera. However, you should be careful with your Polaroid, as the plastic is very fragile.
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Open the flash/ lens compartment of the Polaroid camera to a 30 degree angle with the horizontal.
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Separate the flash section of the camera from the main body by unhooking the sides.
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Open the battery/ cartridge compartment fully.
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Insert spudger in between face of camera and sides where the four tabs are located.
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Once tabs are released, pull face of camera straight out.
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Carefully use tweezers to remove the spring from the hooks.
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Use the spudger to release the latch for the shutter mechanism.
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Rotate the shutter mechanism clockwise until it stops.
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Release the two tabs that hold lens plate in position.
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Remove the lens plate by pulling down, then away from the camera.
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Remove the shutter mechanism from the camera.
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Remove black latch piece from the camera.
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Remove shutter plates from the camera.
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To replace the shutter pieces in the camera, first make sure they are in the proper order.
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The shutter piece at the bottom of the first picture belongs on the bottom.
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The shutter piece in the middle of the first picture goes in the middle (second picture).
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The shutter piece at the top of the first picture goes on top (third picture).
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By looking at the first picture, line up the long, skinny slots on the three shutter pieces.
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In the second picture, notice the pin inside the circle.
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Line up the slots in the shutters with the pin inside the camera as shown in the third picture.
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Put black plastic piece back into camera, making sure to slide tab into slot (rectangle) and onto the pin (circle).
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Final assembly for this step should look like the third picture.
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First, you must align the tab (circled) with the slot (rectangle).
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Align teal and orange circled tabs from the first picture with the respective teal and orange holes in the shutter pieces.
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After the shutter mechanism is placed into the camera, make sure all three shutter pieces are attached correctly.
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To finish putting the Polaroid back together, follow steps 9 through 1 in reverse.
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I'm pretty sure every type 600 polaroid camera is built the same so this should work with other 600 cameras. I followed this guide for my polaroid 640 land camera and it was exactly the same.