Thank you and John H. for the diagnostic and advice.
It is the first problem I ever had with Oly stuff.
Well, I just have one body and it's a great OM1N
bought new around 1980.
Christian
Le Lundi 19 Avril 2004 18:12, vous avez écrit :
> Not an uncommon problem. The aperture slide moves up and down on two
> elongated slots that straddle two screws. Some time or other someone
> pushed a little too hard on the aperture tab and bent the slide so that one
> of the slots has narrowed a bit. As you try to move the narrow part of the
> slide past the screw, it binds.
>
> To fix it, you'll have to remove the bottom cover (5 screws), then the dust
> cover (lift the lower edge out and away, but be careful -- there's a steel
> roller underneath at the top, don't loose it!), then the front cover. The
> front cover is held on by one screw through the back by the lower end of
> the take-up spool and one or two screws through the front. You'll see the
> slide -- just take a flat screwdriver and put it in the slot and twist ever
> so slightly just next to the tab, a little at a time -- careful, not too
> much! -- until the slide moves easily.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I bought an XA few week ago.
> > Recently, I find the aperture level becomes
> > hard to move around f5.6.
> > Has anybody fixed this before ?
> > Thanks.
> > Christian
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