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Re: [OM] OM1 wiring

Subject: Re: [OM] OM1 wiring
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:56:51 -0600
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 09:05:58AM -0500, John Hermanson wrote:
> Your looking at the never-mentioned or documented battery check mechanism
> that was built into early OM-1s.  As a rule I take all those wiper parts
> out and chuck em.  If that white wire is attached to one of those wipers,
> unsolder the other end and dispose of properly.

Yup, that was it. After I found the real problem (that the meter wire was
pinched under the pentaprism bracket, and grounded), I ripped all that stuff
out.

What happened to the battery check stuff? Did it just not work, or what?

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