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Marco
Tinkerer
Username: Marco
Post Number: 7
Registered: 10-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 08:46 pm: | 
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Well, I finally got hold of my first ever OM camera body. It exhibits the apparently frequent stuck mirror/advance lever problem and there doesn't seem to be any current flow from the battery box so I am trying to remove it to investigate continuity. It has clearly been tampered with as some stage as all I can see in the cavity bottom is a raw spring end. Removed both fixing screws but box still won't come out as the mentioned spring seems internally attached to both the box assembly and the film spindle! Am I missing some obvious step here? Please excuse my ignorance and lend me a helping hand. |
Rick_oleson
Tinkerer
Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 662
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 09:22 pm: |
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I don't have a direct answer, but in my OM2S the battery terminal is a raw spring end, so yours may not have been tampered with. |
Marco
Tinkerer
Username: Marco
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 09:38 pm: |
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Thank you, Rick, your comment is most reassuring. Isn't it unusual to find an example of Soviet practicality in a Japanese design? I'm still wiggling the battery chamber back and forth while trying to push the spring back through the hole. I am sure it will soon come out and, who knows, I may be this close to reviving the little thing. |
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