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Author Message   Montrosepatriot Tinkerer Username: Montrosepatriot Post Number: 3 Registered: 12-2008 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2010 - 12:00 am:    I had the same issue with my AE1 - took the top cover off and found no plastic rivets lodged in the mechanical gears and removed the bottom cover and my electromagnet is clean (did the usual by moving the lever to actuate the electromagnet and the mirror is in the locked position although hitting the shutter release locks up the mirror again)...