It should snap back. You can take that assembly apart but it is riveted
shut. Take out large screw, drill out stamping with 7/64" drill Only a
LITTLE dripping is needed. Take all levers out, degrease, rebuild. Screw
and spacers are self centering.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM-2sp service question
> I think the "directional aspect is not only unusual but key to this
> problem. I removed the bottom cover and checked the levers. The
> potentially suspect one is not blazingly quick and perhaps needs
> cleaning but I don't think it's at all related to this problem.
>
> I'll reiterate that with the camera pointing up or forward the wind
> lever works normally 1000f the time. With the camera pointed down or
> upside down the wind lever works 00f the time. If the wind lever will
> not wind simply rotate camera to appropriate position and then it will
> wind normally provided you first release any pressure on the lever.
>
> I also discovered that, if the camera is pointed up, the wind lever will
> wind normally but the lever will only return half way before it gets
> blocked by something. Return camera to facing forward position and wind
> lever will return the rest of the way.
>
> The behavior is as though there's a small pin or screw floating around
> inside which manages to block a gear or linkgage when it's in the right
> position. However, I can't see any such thing with the bottom cover
> removed which implies something at the top. Given the additional
> problem of not being able to fully return the wind lever when the camera
> is facing up it would seem that perhaps the detent mechanism that holds
> the wind lever in the half cocked position is somehow involved. When
> the wind lever won't return it is in exactly the half cocked position
> where there is normally only a slight detent.
>
> Have I made the first discovery of the "out of control detent mechanism"?
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck Norcutt
> Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
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