This is smarter, Fred. TV Contact cleaner usually works better and is cleaner (from my experience with electronic components ..um, quite some time ago :-) ) than WD40. I'd forgotten about using that, but I would recommend a trip to Radio Shack for anyone wanting to try this.
William in Utah. Fred wrote: > > > If I understand you right, you're unable to activate the meter > > without tripping the shutter, right? I had one of mine start > > doing this a little over a year ago, and against all good > > judgment, I dropped a little WD40 from a toothpick down the cable > > release socket and then dry fired the camera a few times. Works > > just like it should with no problems since. > > I had this happen once quite a few years ago (although I think it > actually was an ME Super). My remedy (successful!) was to squirt > just a bit of "TV contact cleaner" (from Radio Shack) and then to > fire the camera a bunch of times. (My thought was that it was an > oxidized electrical contact, which the cleaner might "un-oxidize" > (reduce, I guess, in chemical terms). Well, it worked... > > Fred > - > 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 . - 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 .
