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If someone replaced the foam seals around the back, they may have interfered with the tab that the back cover presses when it's closed. Look in the top slot just behind/below the ASA dial -- you should see a shiny square tab exposed there. If not, find it and cut the foam away from it. If that's not it, you'll have to remove the top cover and clean the counter dial. It's held in place by a large metal "C"-clip -- slide the clip off and you can gently lift the dial up. Unhook the spring that pulls it back to "S". Clean the top, inside, and underside of the dial with any convenient solvent, then clean the clip, too. Lastly, be sure to clean the frame the dial sits on thoroughly. With a solvent-wet tissue over a fingernail, clean down into the corners, too. Replace the dial so that the tab on the underside drops into the loop in the return spring. Use tweezers to coax it over the tab if you need to. Holding the dial down, turn it counter clockwise against the spring's tension until the tab rests against the brass stop. Then, holding the front edge of the dial _down_ so that the spring doesn't jump into the gap between the dial and the frame, carefully lift the rear side of the dial just enough so that you can turn the tab on the dial past the brass stop, then immediately lower it into place. Holding the dial down, slip the C-clip back into place. Check the dial to make sure it spins freely -- if not, try again. |