[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I know I ought to bookmark these things the first time I see them, but... >Is the repair manual for the ME one of the ones that has been >scanned and put online already?
Yes, indeed! http://www.robertstech.com/pentax.htm >I've got an ME that suffered a fall a while back (I've since >switched brand of camera strap, as the style I was using >managed to let go of two different cameras on different >occasions). Everything seems to work fine except for one >annoying detail: after I advance the film, I have to push >the lever back into place myself; it no longer returns on >its own. > >Someone (Fred?) suggested that it was probably a spring >having gotten knocked loose in the bottom, so this afternoon >I finally pulled the bottom plate off, and sure enough, there's >the return spring in plain sight. The end that attaches to >the chassis appears to be properly connected, which means it >must have come loose from the shaft (it doesn't look like it's >coiling when I cock the shutter, so I figure it is in fact a >knocked-loose spring problem instead of something else getting >bent and creating too much friction or something). > >What I can't see is how to get at the attachment point without >making a bunch of other, tinier springs go sproing. I'm at >the point now where I have to decide a) whether to press forward, >b) whether to close the thing back up and live with it as it is, >or c) hope that I can save up enough for a professional repair >before it absolutely drives me crazy. (Note that this is my >number four K-mount body, so I shouldn't have to deal with it >all _that_ often ... but it does get its share of film run >through it anyhow.) > >Has anyone else here done this repair on an ME or another body >in which that section of the mechanism is the same as an ME? I've done it on an ME but I don't remember exactly what I did. I believe there's a spring one end of which had slipped off the arm it was supposed to push against. As I recall it was a reassembly error on my part after repairing something else. >Pointers? Clues? BTW: THe ME mechanism is different from the ME Super and I believe all the other electronic "M" cameras used the ME Super type mechanism. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - 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 .
