Didn't read the comments before doing that. Shutter works now, but it's apparently not the best thing to do for the camera. I can inform in this comment section, if my camera still works in the future
I messed up an EAS test once when I was a on college radio. I was supposed to run the cart that said, "This is a test of the emergency alert system" and then hit the EAS test button on the EAS console. But when I hit "test", nothing happened. It turned out it wouldn't test because there were unread notifications on it. I went on the air and said, "Let me try that again"; then I reran the test which was successful. I was embarrassed.
For those who seek an alternative solution. A squirt of Zippo fluid will do the same. Advance the camera a few times and let it sit overnight without a lens on it and the film back open so the fumes can escape. It wont oil te gears but it will get rid off the acces gunked up grease and dirt from there. You might need to open the bottom after that to see if any grease might a sunk to the bottom for you to clean. Don't use WD-40!! It's better to have no oil instead of to much oil.
WARNING WARNING WARNING. DO NOT DO THIS!!!! First of all WD40 is not a lubricant. Secondly shooting that much WD will get into the mirror box and specially the focus screen and damage it. You will not be able to get out all the WD40 that has spread all over the mirror box, and focus screen.
I just bought 2 Ae 1 cameras today. 1 had this issue the other had a stick shutter then a wired flap fell out of the camera lol idk where it’s from but the camera seems to function just fine now that it fell out
Oh, man. It's almost two years later and I really want to know how this turned out. WD40 is bad news when applied to moving mechanisms without a followup of some kind of clear synthetic oil. And this is not even taking into account just how bad that much oil of any kind would be for the the camera overall. I would recommend a tiny drop or two of Tri-Flow, watch oil, or even sewing machine oil and forgo the WD40 altogether.