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Gez
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Username: Gez
Post Number: 46
Registered: 09-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 08:18 am: | 
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I'm having trouble shifting the retaining screw that sits under the glued-on thin aluminium decorator disc on top of the wind arm. It just won't move, all the guides say this in RH thread, did Olympus make any with a LH thread? |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 744
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 07:38 pm: |
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No, it's a right hand thread, as far as I've ever seen. |
Gez
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Username: Gez
Post Number: 47
Registered: 09-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 08:13 am: |
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Thanks Rick, I eventually managed to unscrew it after applying a soldering iron for about 5 minutes to the screw top. The heat broke the bond of some minor corrosion on the thread, RH. |
Norman
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Username: Norman
Post Number: 13
Registered: 03-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 10:19 am: |
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I wish that I had known the soldering iron trick before. I spent days trying to undo a screw on the front of my Nikon F all the time fearing that it would get so chewed up that it would never unscrew and that I would have to resort to drilling it out. Past experience has shown me that that it is never really satisfactory. I still have a problem with a stuck filter but am reluctant to try all the extreme methods that have been suggested as failure would result in the destruction of my favourite camera, a Fuji GW690. |
Marco
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Username: Marco
Post Number: 12
Registered: 10-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:02 am: |
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Where male threads seem to be the culprit may I suggest trying first cooling rather than heating. I've had good experiencies using an ice cube directly from the fridge. |
