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[OM] OM-10 -- keeps on sticking?

Subject: [OM] OM-10 -- keeps on sticking?
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:23:41 -0600
 I have an old OM-10 which has given sterling service for a fair while now
-- except that of late it's taken to overexposing all the time. It seems
pretty clear that what's going on is that something inside the camera is
sticky, and not releasing when it should -- even by ear I can tell that the
shutter/mirror/whatever is spending too long in the "open" position.

 This happened once before; I took it to a local camera shop, they cleaned
the release magnet, all was well for a while. I took it out again last week
after a month or so of not using it, and it was sticking again.

 Ploughing through the archives of this list, it sounds as if it's "oil on
the magnet" -- but that's what the camera shop already did to clean it, and
it just went wrong again after a while. I tried the thing where I prise up
the bottom of the inside of the camera, but it really didn't seem to want to
come apart and I'm wary of breaking something -- is there something else
that might be wrong? Is this just going to keep on happening until I replace
it?

 -- dan


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