"Stephanie Stiavetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >everyone, thanks for all of your input. > >I tried both of the suggestions below, as well as bruce's advice to lift the >shutter manually, and nothing has worked. I decided to take the silly thing >apart (hell, it was free, and if nothing else it would be a learning >experience) but two of the screws are stuck and whoever tried to take them >out before me destroyed the top of the screws so that no screwdriver will >grip them. > >how on earth do you get these tiny things out when a screwdriver won't work? >there's got to be a way.
Before you go any further you should be aware that the cap on the pivot of the wind lever (and the nut underneath it) is a left-hand thread, so you have to turn it the reverse of the normal direction to loosen and remove it. (Turn it CLOCKWISE to remove it, in other words.) -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com Photography and writing
