Barry -- What about the little spring loaded "stop" on the bottom of the
flash unit shoe - between the outer contacts. That little gadget would
appear to drop into the notch on the flash shoe and position the flash
properly. I'll bet that it has broken or stuck up into the base of the
flash unit shoe. There are no other stops that I can see.
Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM4/flash shoe 'stop'
> I know that up until this weekend, I always just slid my flash in as
> far as it would go, tightened it down (optional) and shot. Now it
> suddenly slides 1/4" too far in. Since my shoe 4 for my OM-1n has a
> stop, I'm assuming there must have been some sort of stop.
>
>
> BBB
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:38:50 +0100, JEZ.CUNNINGHAM@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >Are you sure you lost something? I never had this 'stop' on my OM4 and
> >always thought it was a poor design (excuse blasphemy).
> >
> > Barry B. Bean wrote:
> > I have somehow lost or broken the stop at the front of my OM-4T flash
> > shoe - the part that keeps the flash in proper position over the
> > contacts. While I can still use my flash unit by very carefully
> > mounting it and locking it down as tight as possible, this is far
> > from an ideal solution. Is this user-repairable? Any suggestions?
> >
> >Jez
> >
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