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Philip Forrest
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 09:35 am: | 
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I'm a US Navy photographer currently in Iraq and recently took a little damage to my personal M4 that required replacement of the winder lever. NOW, the brass collar that the winder lever sits upon will not cycle back all the way to it's ralaxed position with the lever on. The tang on the bottom of the lever that engages the brass collar prevents the collar from fully snapping back. In essence it's made the camera a double stroke in a way. I do not want to have this camera die on me and we don't have any repair personnel out here in the desert. I'm thinking I need to get the top cover off, and rotate the bras collar back to where it is supposed to be. Any help would be greatly appreciated! |
Henry
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 12:27 pm: |
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I'm assuming you mean Leica M4. And if I'm understandimg you correctly the "brass collar" is actually the central member of the drive shaft assembly. This assembly is mounted via three screws and the top plate of this assembly may be bent. Also the double stroking may be caused by a tooth having jumped.
You may email me directly and if you can accept photos and large files I can send you a scanned M2 service manual. It's about 6 megs.
Henry |
Philip
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 01:24 am: |
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Henry,
Thanks, I came upon a manual online last night & got the thing apart. It turns out that the drive shaft assembly is attached via 2 notches to a washer with a tang off to the side that is a mechanical stop to prevent overwinding. The incredibly tiny press fit boss that acts as 1 side of the stop range had worked itself out of the hole and had limited the travel of the drive gears. No worries though, I took a look at everything and all the gear teeth are very much intact with no damage to them. The only "problem" now is that the winder lever rests gently against the shutter speed dial instead of standing off by a few millimeters. The camera is working fine now. However the framelines seem a little out of whack. When I put on a lens, the proper frame line is brought up, but the lever is loose instead of it having it's usual spring tension and it will not bring up framelines wider than the lens that is mounted. That's no big deal though for me, I usually have a 50mm on the camera and those framelines work just fine. I was in a bind because all this came about several days before I travel to Spain. Thanks for the help though, and any more advice you can offer is greatly appreciated!
Philip |
DJ Casarez
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 11:26 pm: |
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Hello, I hope Phil forrest gets this as I am having a hell of a time e-mailing him. Anyhoo, sory this has nothing to do with camaras, just tryin to say hi to a friend at war.
laserz:
DJ Casarez
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