Voigtlander Vitessa L - Rangefinder

[Olivier]

Hi

I have a very nice Voigtlaender Vitessa L but rangefinder doesn't work.
When I look inside the viewfinder I see the adjsting square but when I turn the focusing knob, nothing moves at all in the view finder.

I opened the top to have a look. Mirror is in place on the prism.
But there's a swinging arm moving when I rotate the focusing knob, it has a rectangular metal frame which is empty.
Do you know whether it should contain a glass or not ?

Few photos :

#1 from the front


#2 back


#3 back

[Olivier]

Nobody ?

[bghomofaber]

From what I have gathered reading about rangefinder systems, you are missing the beam splitter, the half mirror I mean.

An example of repair

http://tunnel13.com/blog/leica-iiif-beamsplitter-replace/


I have a separate rangefinder whose beamsplitter has lost silvering, I think I can find one from the same source as explained in the linled blog.

Also

http://jelabs.blogspot.it/2012/06/replacing-beam-splitter-mirror-in.html

[Olivier]

Thank you very much.

I feel the swinging arm metal frame shouldn't be empty.
Should this beam splitter mirror be in this frame ?