Thank you for the link to the manual, also.

@PRYorkshire Thank you so much for your help! I checked the shutter using your instruction and it seemed fine. I didn't notice any problem with the movement. I need to pick up a battery so I can't check the needle yet, but I believe it worked in the past. I remember seeing it move, but I had no idea what was happening with it.

I won't be changing the seals myself. I would ruin the camera or lose an important piece, so I will have to look into a service near me. And I definitely won't use oil on it. Thank you. 😊

When I got the camera, it came with a couple of extra lenses and some filters. Pictures are just to show them. I don't see myself using anything than what's already attached, though.

I want to say thank you so much for your hospitality and answers on my last post. I really really really appreciate the help I received.

I decided to get some film to see if I can get the K-1000 to work. I have time so I might as well take the time to learn about it better than I did before and to see if it works. I cleaned the outside of it while I was looking at videos on YouTube. A video played (on auto play) and there was a guy who recommended using coconut oil to shine/restore it (it was a K-1000), and I was wondering if this is a normal and/or recommended way of restoring it? If it's not, is there a recommendation someone would be willing to give to me? I know using oil is normal on some things but it just seems a little odd to me to be using oil on a camera since oil can cause smudging and be difficult to remove. It doesn't seem like it would be a good idea, but I don't know a lot about anything so 🤷‍♀️. Thought I'd ask. The video after recommended using shoe polish. Shoe polish seems more plausible to me but still not sure.

On a side note, I'm excited to be trying to figure it out again. 😊

Thank you!

Daisy

@PRYorkshire Thank you! That's all great to know. I thought about cleaning it but I'm not good with... well, a lot of things, and I'm a little afraid that I might not get it back together, or I might accidentally break something that wasn't broken before. It's happened before with items I was told wouldn't break. The pricing really helps. I plan on putting a buy now price on it but I don't mind offers. There are two other lenses and a couple of other items so at least this way I can take into account it may not work, balance it out and figure out a decent selling price for everything. I wish I could figure it out to see if it works, it's probably something easy my brain isn't picking up. I've used film cameras in the past because I used to take a lot of pictures, it's why I was given this as a gift, but those cameras were really cheap, nothing of this quality or age. I've always felt bad that it just sat there.

Again, thank you so much for all of the information! I really really appreciate it and the time you took. 😊

OK. Thank you so much for your replies! I appreciate the info. 😊 This helps me immensely.

I feel kinda bad for making a post here because I'm not actually a Pentax user, but I felt this was probably the best place to go.

I have an Asahi Pentax K-1000 that was given to me as a gift ten to fifteen years ago. The person who gave it to me said it was over 20 years since they had used it. I'm pretty dumb so I never was able to figure out how to use it. I tried a few times, but 🤷‍♀️. I don't want it to just be setting in my house all of the time, collecting dust (as you'll see it's been doing in the pictures) so I've decided to try to sell it. I was just wondering if someone could tell me which version they think it is (#2 is my best guess but I don't know enough to decide for sure) and maybe a rough estimate of a selling price, from for parts to maybe what it would be worth in good working condition. I'm just not sure at all what it might be worth. Just looking for a few opinions. Also, the case is starting to disintegrate (or maybe it has been for a while, the red on the camera is from the case) and I was wondering if it's worth keeping it in the case or if it would be better to throw the case out to keep getting the red particles on the items stored in it. Also, I realize I'm not holding it the best way in the pics. There is other stuff with it, in case that's a question. Thanks in advance.