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Bob D
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 01:08 pm: | 
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I have a beautiful Olympus OM-2 but the film door won't open when the rewind knob is lifted.
Is there a way to open it without major disassembly?
Thanks,
Bob |
rick oleson
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 04:52 pm: |
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The door is probably just stuck in the rotted foamyrubberytarry light seal stuff around its edges. It's hard to get a grip on an OM2 back because it doesn't overlap anywhere to give you an edge to grab, to try sticking a big chunk of duct tape to the back (being careful not to overlap onto anything other than the back) and leave a big tab hanging out toward the left end to grab onto.... best if the tape is stuck to the camera on both sides of the tab, so that it doesn't just peel back off.....
now pull up firmly on the rewind knob and PULL on the tab, and it will probably open.
Once you've done that, contact Jon Goodman ([email protected]) for one of his neat light-seal replacement kits.
If you can't get the back open this way, the only cause I can think of is a damaged latch - I think this will involve peeling back the leather on the front side of the left seam and pulling out a few screws to disassemble the latch - and possibly removing the top cover to get to the upper end of it to straighten it or whatever it needs. It would take a pretty hefty pull to damage the latch though..... |
Bob D
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 06:57 am: |
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Thanks! I will try that.
Bob |
George Dean
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 06:33 pm: |
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I have a beautiful Olympus OM2, but it has a problem..
When in "auto" mode, when the shutter is pressed, the shutter doesn't fire, and the mirror locks up (in the way it does when the batteries are dead) and I have to "reset" to clear this.
It works fine in manual mode.
I suspect this is a shutter magnet problem.
Can anyone advise on this please? |
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