The greasy levers have to be degreased but Oly designers thought it would
speed production by stamping that assembly shut. You can drill out
uppermost lip of stamping (directly under big screw) with 7/64" drill, then
greasy levers will come out easily.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
631-424-2121 | omtech@xxxxxxxxx
www.zuiko.com
Factory Trained OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:32 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OM2 Spot/Program shutter etc problem
> andy pang wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>I had an OM2sp jammed on the winding gear. I open up from the bottom plate
>>and compare the gears with my another OM2SP, good one. Turn out that the
>>gears somehow "overwound" and click on the wrong place and got stuck.
>>Since
>>Igot this 2SP cheap, I might as well test my skill then. I just unscrew a
>>fewscrews around the gearing mechanism, move the gears to its "normal"
>>position (compared to a good one), and voila, it is working again.
>>
>>My wife did give me a real big complement this time, for at least not to
>>messup another camera.
>>
>>
> I've done that too, on other OM bodies. You don't really need to
> unscrew anything but the bottom plate screws to reset it. The problem is
> that it will happen again unless you are careful to wind slowly each time.
>
> The longer term solution is to clean all grease off the latches that
> catch in the rotary mechanism detents. What happens is that the grease
> makes the latches move a little too slowly. So if the rotary mechanism
> is moving too fast, it goes by without being stopped by the latches.
>
> Moose
>
>
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