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Subject: [OM] Re: Before I Break It
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:00:46 -0400
If it has a pin and the camera you are transferring to does not have the 
hole (only earliest bods have that) trim pin off with something like an 
exacto 11 blade.  Glue tab on with either brown rubber cement or a tiny drop 
of gap filling cca (crazy glue).

John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
631-424-2121  |  omtech@xxxxxxxxx
              www.zuiko.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Plummer" <plummerl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 3:19 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Before I Break It


>
> Yes, the small, plastic tab with the white line (part CA9077).  Looking at
> the OM-1 Repair Manual (The Olympus Hardware Resource Page), it appears 
> that
> it is cemented on.  The arm that I have does not have a hole.
>
>> Are you speaking of the small plastic tab with the white line that you
>> push to start the self-timer?  If so, on all but the very earliest
>> types, it's just glued in place.  The part comes new with a small
>> round plastic post sticking out the back that used to fit in a hole on
>> the arm it's attached to -- the post is melted wide to keep the tab in
>> place on the older type arms.  Later arms don't have a hole, so the
>> post is just sheared off and the tab is glued onto the arm.  We
>> usually used a tiny dot of superglue.
>
>
>


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