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     Steve_s Tinkerer Username: Steve_s Post Number: 52 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
There seems to be an epidemic of jammed Prakticas on this forum at the moment! I had a jammed MTL3 myself a few weeks ago. I spent ages peering and prodding in the mechanism. Eventually I noticed a screw-head deep inside where I was pretty sure no screw should be, and then noticed one of the screws holding the timing delay mechanism was missing from its usual home! Have a good look around, but if you can't find anything obviously wrong the only solution may be to remove the timing mechanism so that you can see properly what is going on. It's best to take the timing mechanism off with the shutter cocked, but I guess it must be possible without. It's 2 or 3 years since I did it myself, but let us know if you want to try it and I will see if I can put together some basic instructions from notes I made. |