TL Electro unable to wind.

I often buy parts cameras as donors for working, but cosmetic-issue repair projects, and I'll still try to see what's wrong with whatever I get... and the TL- Super that showed up today had a similar issue as tzardine did on the Electro. It took some poking and prodding to get a sense of what wasn't working, and what to try to get it going again. I'm not assuming it is actually the same issue, but here's the gist of what I did.

In no particular order of clues to diagnose it:

• The self-timer lever had a fair amount of slack in it, and was oriented sideways, not vertical.
• The shutter button was 'sloppy' and seemed half-way depressed, but wouldn't budge further.
• The shutter curtains' metal bar was all the way to the right side, so it was cocked to fire.

I assumed the timer was jammed or somehow stuck, so I used the tips on a compass/divider inserted into the set of holes on it's retaining cap to spin the timer back to the right, and back into it's original position. Not a lot of presure to do it, but it required some coaxing to get it started. Unfortunately my side-tipped lens spanner doesn't have a small enough distance between the tips when closed to fit the retainer. That wasn't enough to get it to fire - but - it did lightly 'click' when it returned to position.

I have a few manual shutter cables, and screwed one into the shutter to give it one last little push, and it disengaged the trigger and I got a mirror slap to confirm it was free and had actually fired. The curtains were back in position, but oddly they have a fair amount of goop on the cloth itself, but the camera does fire fine after getting the self-timer back to normal position. I don't know where the goopy stuff came from, or if it contributed to, or was the cause.

Since this body is now working - including the meter! - I have to decide if I try to clean out the goop and keep it as-is, or strip the bottom plate and clean battery cover and it's meter, to still use it as a donor.