I tried to fix a stuck shutter on a Canon AE-1 and made it worse

I had a Canon AE-1 come in last week with the shutter stuck halfway. It looked like a simple cleaning job, so I pulled the top plate and bottom plate off to get at the mechanism. But I accidentally knocked the self-timer linkage out of alignment, and now the mirror won't flip up at all. Has anyone else had this happen with these old Copal shutters, and is there a trick to resetting that timing without tearing the whole thing down?

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grayt4639m ago

Start by taking the self timer mechanism completely off the camera. I've done this repair a few times and it's way easier to get the shutter sorted when that thing is out of the way entirely. You can put it back on LAST after everything else is working right.