You can probably get it off if you wear a rubber glove to get a grip. A pair of pliers is not a good idea.
Don Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: Re: new to the list, + a repair question > "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 >
