Dirk,
It sounds like it's time for "little cat Z"
"Dr Seuss"
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:28:24 EDT
> From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] winder 1 woes
>
> Well, I had the dreaded "spinning like a crazed hamster" effect on this
> Winder 1. After finding out that the problem was some dried up grease,
> I decided to investigate. Low and behold, I found that the "grease" on
> the swinging carriage was now basically solid and had to be scraped off
> with a small tool. So, I first tried lithium grease, and that was
> worse, so I searched around the house, considered alternates (hmm, toe
> cheese? ear wax? nah....) and found an old tube of heat sink compound.
> It appeared to be sufficiently stiff to do the job (er, you know what I
> mean I hope.....). Sure enough it seems to work flawlessly, except now
> I have a new problem. I hate it when that happens. You go to fix one
> thing and something else breaks. The new problem is that, with the
> winder attached to a camera, the moment I turn the power switch to
> "single" (ON, in other words), it starts firing off frame after frame
> sequentially regardless of whether I press the release button. The only
> way to stop it is to either pull the batteries or turn it off. I
> inspected all the wires and they seemed fine. I was very careful in
> assembly and disassembly. Got really good at it too. So, anyone have an
> idea? Anyone have a schematic??? HELP!!!
>
> Be seeing you.
>
>
> Dirk Wright
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