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Author Message   Gez Tinkerer Username: Gez Post Number: 94 Registered: 09-2007 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 12:55 pm:    Tomosy's Book 2 contains a brief description for working on the A-1. His books are essential reading and reasonable value. Very briefly: 1) Remove the rubber plug in the eyepiece shade lever and unscrew. 2) Push the mode selector finger guard up and remove the visible screw. Gently take off the plastic pieces revealing a metal plate, remove the 2 screws and lift off the plate, watch out for the small detent ball! 3) After removing the facia surround and all the other screws the top plate is now only held by the collar around the release button. This is often very difficult to unscrew. Try a rubber pad, but you may have to use a flexigrip wrench. Before you wriggle off the top make sure the red LED is completely free of its small collar. Sometimes the collar is glued and the only way to remove the LED is to gently pry it free of its connections to the circuit board, you want to avoid that. PS set the viewfinder display to ON.