Clint,
What is "conductive grease" called in the shops? Just wondering if I might
find it here where I live? Can you tell me the brand name etc? Seems like my
beater OM 2s has the same problem.
Regards
Titoy
----- Original Message -----
From: <clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Cleaning film speed dial?
> Daniel Mitchell wrote:
>
> > My OM2S has a weird tendency to _sometimes_ over-read a lot....
>
> Quite common on the OM-2s. Moving the ASA knob back and forth once in a
while
> is fine but it should have been corrected during any typical overhaul. If
> nothing else is wrong you can wait until it needs more work.
>
>
> > Is there a good fix for this? In the shop when I showed this to people
and
> > asked for suggestions, they just squirted a drop of lighter fluid under
the
> > ring which seemed to help for a little while....
>
> Worked for a little while? Strictly a coincidence. Now your camera has
what is
> called in the camera repair business "liquid damage". The only solution
is to
> remove the top cover and coat the ASA VR with "conductive grease". Anyone
who
> squirts lighter fluid into a camera they are not 100 0.000000amiliar with is
> an
> incompetent fool.
>
>
> > (presumably I'd start by taking the film speed dial off and poking
around
> > under there, but I'm wary of winding up putting it back together with
some
> > sort of offset in there and never knowing where I really am
thereafter..)
>
> The big problem isn't getting things back right -- the big problem is
turning a
> little problem into an unrepairable one, like blowing the brains out of
the CPU
> or the Head Amp.
>
>
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