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Costas
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 26, 2005 - 05:16 am: | 
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I am having trouble in taking off the left top cover (the one with the rewind crank). The reason is that I don’t have the special tool required in order to unscrew the Flash Terminal. According to the F-1 repair guide, I need service tool T0630-19-9789-1, but even the local Canon service centre does not have it.
Is there someone in the forum who managed to unscrew the terminal without the use of this special tool? I tried unsuccessfully to use a set of pliers but I cannot get a good grip, and also I don’t want to apply too much pressure fearing that I may at least scratch either the screw or the camera cover.
Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance. |
Glenn Middleton
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 26, 2005 - 08:11 am: |
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You need to make a tapered tube that enters the Terminal and grips the inner face of the socket.I made my first one out of thick walled alloy tube, held in an electric drill and shaped with a file.You can get this type of tubing from Model Supply Outlets.I suggest you find a friendly model engineer and get him to turn one up for you, it is a simple job as the required dimensions are given in the repair manual.The reason that many of the repair tools that are illustrated in the Canon Repair Manuals are dimensioned,is to allow local manufacture.Canon manufactured tools seem to be quite rare. |
Costas
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 01:26 am: |
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This is very helpfull.
Many thanks Glen |
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