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Re: [OM] Film advance lever problems

Subject: Re: [OM] Film advance lever problems
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:31:23 -0400
Nice save!

John  Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Lex Jenkins <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 6:40 AM
Subject: re: [OM] Film advance lever problems


| Wow!  You'd be a very handy guy to have around on safari and mucky places.
| I bet with a little time you could rig up a winder from some baling wire
and
| banana leaves.  ;)
|
| Lex
| ===
|
| >From: Dylan <dsut4392@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >Subject: re: [OM] Film advance lever problems
| >Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:44:54 +1000
| >
| >Lex, in response to your "Never, never, never", I have to add an
| >"except...".
| >My OM1 advance lever started jamming on caving trip. While slamming the
| >camera against the heel of my palm worked most of the time, I started
| >getting bruises before we finished the cave, and didn't really think it
| >was that good for the camera! Luckily a member of the trip repairs
| >catscan and MRI machines for a living, so I borrowed a small screwdriver
| >from the toolbox in his car (he came on the 3 day caving trip straight
| >from work!). I wiped the major red mud clumps off the camera, and soon
| >had the bottom plate off. It wasn't too hard to work out which part of
| >the mechanism was jamming, add a tiny drop of silicon lubricant and work
| >it into the gears. Pop the bottom plate back on, fire off a few frames,
| >put in a new film, and I was back down in the dirt, squeezing my way
| >through tunnels, abseiling through tiny holes into dark nothingness and
| >blinding people with my flash on a PC cord where they weren't expecting
| >it. More than a year down the track, it's still smooth as butter and
| >hasn't missed a beat.
| >JohnH may be great, but there are times when only on the spot service
| >counts, and the only person to do it is you...
| >Dylan - thank god it wasn't a wonderbrick or I woulda been screwed!
| >
|
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