It's common for 2S thru 4Ti to develop overgreasesd wind latches in the
bottom, but the resulting jam up usually doesn't require the body to be in
any special position. Take the bottom off and see if anything falls out.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: [OM] OM-2sp service question
> I have a spare OM-2sp that I bought from a listie some long time ago.
> Since I didn't really need it it sat in a drawer for the first 3 or 4
> months until I finally decided to run a roll of film through it. When I
> was using it I periodically noticed that I had difficulty winding it.
> The wind lever seemed to be jammed but after fussing about doing random
> things it would eventually wind on as though nothing happened. I
> installed new batteries toward the end of the roll and had no further
> problems. I attributed the problem to bad batteries and after removing
> the batteries for storage put the camera back in the drawer.
>
> Now its been back in the drawer again for the past year. However, I'm
> seriously contemplating having my original 2sp CLA'd and so I took the
> other one out again today to try it out and limber it up. Since it
> didn't have batteries in it I couldn't resist trying it out on manual
> 1/60. It came to life immediately and fired off about six shots OK when
> all of a sudden I couldn't wind it. Like before I did a bunch of
> random, useless things and suddenly it was OK again. Well, clearly it
> wasn't batteries since none are required in manual. To make a long
> story short, after some experimentation I discovered:
>
> If the camera is pointing face down or is upside down the wind lever is
> locked. If the camera is pointing face up or face forward the wind
> lever is free. What's the prognosis here? Do I have a loose screw or
> other part rolling around in the wind gears? I guess I could pull the
> bottom plate easily enough but I haven't attempted that yet.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
> Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
>
>
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