c330 lens cocked for 2 weeks!

I totally agree. No engineer would design a spring drive which would
get damaged by left under (high) tension. I have a RolleiB35 where the
lens can only be collapsed when the shutter is cocked. I did not use
it for years. Once or twice a year I take it out and fire the shutter.
Still works OK.

However, in an old french focal plane shutter camera (Foca two-stars)
I found a label inside warning the user not to leave the shutter
cocked for extended periods.

Winfried

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says...
I totally agree. No engineer would design a spring drive which would
get damaged by left under (high) tension. I have a RolleiB35 where the
lens can only be collapsed when the shutter is cocked. I did not use
it for years. Once or twice a year I take it out and fire the shutter.
Still works OK.

However, in an old french focal plane shutter camera (Foca two-stars)
I found a label inside warning the user not to leave the shutter
cocked for extended periods.

Winfried

I think my Mamiya TLR lenses have been stored with cocked shutters for
most of the 23 years I have owned them. One of them (135mm) has not had
a CLA in that time and still works fine. The 65 has needed a couple of
CLA's (about every 15-20 years!)

I bought them used - I think they were about 10 years old when I bought
them.