    
Robert Follia
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 09:06 am: | |
Hi,
Got a Leicaflex SL that had been stored for quite a long time and, as you will all know, the battery leaked and ate away the contact in the battery case. I took it to my local repairman, who told me the camera would have to be sent to Germany and that the battery case replacement would cost more than the value of the camera. They told me that the cable was shot, too.
No problem in taylor-making a cable and connections myself (I have re-celled mobile phone battery packs, and yesterday I brought back to life a dead Tamron 28-200 zoom)
But... it seems I need a special tool to remove the tripod threads (kind of square wrench). Can I make it from scratch using a scrap allen wrench?
Besides, the small moving needle in viewfinder which usually has to match the meter's needle, and which moves whenever the aperture and shutter speed are changed, only moves when the first one is changed. I guess it is the linkage between the shutter speed selector and the moving needle, but something could be broken, too.
And last but not least. As far as dissassembly and linkage between the aperture and shutter speed knobs and the needle in wiewfinder, can I use the Leicaflex I workshop manual? (as far as I am concerned, the only differences rely in mirror lockup, non-ttl metering and the different battery case locations in the Leicaflex original..)
Thank you all and best regards
Robert |