Sounds like the sub mirror is not going up.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] 4T Mirror Problem
| At 09:33 PM 27/08/2001 -0700, Mike M. wrote:
| >Looks like Garth and myself had a bad case of butter fingers.
|
| I *resent* that.
|
| I almost always use olive or canola oil.
|
| [snip]
|
| >The center square of the mirror assembly has separated from the larger
frame
| >part of the mirror. When put on B and shutter depressed with no lens on
| >, the outside frame goes all the way up and stays but the center piece
| >hangs down in front of the film plane at an angle. Anybody know if this
| >is something I might try to repair or is it a job for a qualified repair
| >man?
|
| Oh, man, I wouldn't wanna try that. I imagine the tolerances required to
get the mirror aligned *just so* would be fairly rigorous. Sounds like a
job for John H. at Camtech or Clint at Photosphere. Might as well get a CLA
while you're at it, too.
|
| Garth
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