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Re: [OM] sticky wind lever

Subject: Re: [OM] sticky wind lever
From: "Clemente Colayco" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:05:48 +0800
What if the opposite is happening, I mean I do not feel the detents. A badly
brassed but seeminlgy functional OM 3 is sitting at a local shop where the
lever swings out without an resistance.

Regards

Titoy

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From: <clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] sticky wind lever


> Just under the wind levers of the 4/4t/2s/3/3t/et al are two ball bearings
that
> provide the "offset" detent of the wind lever -- the "click" where the
wind
> lever is held out away from the body a little before it begins winding the
> film.  If those balls, or more importantly the frame they sit in (they're
> supposed to be stainless -- the frame is steel), get moist, they rust.  If
you
> want to try it, you can gently pry off the plastic cap over the top of the
wind
> lever (glue it back with three little dots of contact cement), and remove
the
> screw underneath.  Under the wind lever is a spacer and two ball
bearings --
> don't loose them!  They're probably a bit corroded -- if so, clean them
and the
> frame they sit in, then put a bit of grease in the holes where they sit (a
pin
> head will do, any kind of bearing grease will do fine, too) and replace.
>
> William Sommerwerck wrote:
>
> > The wind lever on my black OM-4T is a bit "sticky-rough" at the
beginning of
> > the wind, while the lever on my champagne OM-4T is smooth.
>
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