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Last Christmas my Dad's wife Joann gave me a couple of old flash units as she knows I am into old cameras and what not. One of them is the Canon Quint. The Quint takes 5 AG1 flash bulbs and fires each in sequence saving the need to reload after each photo. On the back is a small window that shows which flash will fire next indicated with a number 1 to 5. Unfortunately this was stuck at the number 3. With all AG1 bulbs loaded the flash fired on number 3 but the number did not advance. The subsequent shutter closure did not cause the flash to fire again. I had also read of another person who had a Quint described with the same problem. Disappointed and not wanting to just reload on each flash I disassembled the unit to see if it could be repaired. (See comments section for help in disassembling that some helpful reader has contributed.) In the photo below is the view from the back with the case removed. The silver square on the right shows the window (with a 1 sh...