Thanks, Steve, I don't know if it's sticky foam, because when the mirror gets hung up and I take the lens off and physically move the mirror down with the little lever just inside the lens mount, it flips back up again.
Hopefully a CLA will do the trick. I'll try that. regards, frank Steve Larson wrote: > Morning Frank, Sounds like a good CLA is all it needs. The mirror > staying up is probably just the foam at the top of the mirror box > has gone bad. A little cleaning and lubing should fix you right up. > Steve Larson > Redondo Beach, California > > "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Well, unfortunately, the MX that I've recently acquired is not without > > it's problems. > > > > Once in a while, the mirror hangs up, and I have to hit the shutter > > release and film advance a few times before it decides to come down. > > Last night, the body "froze" completely: the mirror hung up, the > > shutter advance wouldn't, and the shutter release wouldn't either. > > > > A very quick response from the vendor advised me to "spank" the bottom > > of the body to "unfreeze" it, and that worked, but the mirror still > > seems to hang every so often - not all the time, maybe every 10 to 20 > > cycles. Haven't run any film through it yet, so luckily, no shots were > > lost. > > > > So here are my questions. > > > > Has this happened to anyone else? Is it a relatively inexpensive fix? > > > > I'm thinking that I'll get a CLA before I run any film through it, which > > would be a pretty good idea in any event. Is this likely to solve the > > problem, or could it need more than that? > > > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > frank > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
