johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
Hi, welcome here,
My tips:
If not sure, CCR sounds good, although no personal experience.
My tips:
- get a macro mode P&S digital and start shooting right away the current state of affairs
- get tomosy's Leica Repair handbook
- From the pictures and Tomosy's book, try to deduct what parts (if any) are missing.
- send your deduction and photos to Don Goldberg in the US at dagcam@chorus.net. Don will send short replies enquiring about part specifics if any doubt, and tell you what to pay for parts & shipping.
If not sure, CCR sounds good, although no personal experience.
Jonathan Pritchard
Newbie
Hi,
Thanks for all the replies, Especially Ron and Erik for the repair manuals. and all who posted the general tips regarding repair - lessons I'd previously learnt already the hard way attempting to repair a Zenit, but its always good to be reminded.
From what I've seen in the repair manuals all that is missing is a retaining washer for the gain cam, In the manuals its reffered to as ECCENTRIC CAM "A" and is at the pivot point for the whole arm.
As I said it was upsidedown when compared with all the images I've seen, as in the slotted step thats on one side was facing the up not down, when looking at the parts it does seem the logical way round to mount the cam.
nobbylon: thanks for the link, I came across this site when I first looked into the problem, but I can't quite understand the way it describes it, I think I need to see it properly. When it says the shaft can be pushed up dislocating it, how does screwing the tighter remedy this? are there two concentric shafts, one outer squared off one and an inner threaded one? If it has become dislocated surely pulling it back by force (screwing the bolt tighter) would cause damage to the mechanism inside unless the parts inside the rangeinder were properly aligned first?
Thanks for all the replies, Especially Ron and Erik for the repair manuals. and all who posted the general tips regarding repair - lessons I'd previously learnt already the hard way attempting to repair a Zenit, but its always good to be reminded.
From what I've seen in the repair manuals all that is missing is a retaining washer for the gain cam, In the manuals its reffered to as ECCENTRIC CAM "A" and is at the pivot point for the whole arm.
As I said it was upsidedown when compared with all the images I've seen, as in the slotted step thats on one side was facing the up not down, when looking at the parts it does seem the logical way round to mount the cam.
nobbylon: thanks for the link, I came across this site when I first looked into the problem, but I can't quite understand the way it describes it, I think I need to see it properly. When it says the shaft can be pushed up dislocating it, how does screwing the tighter remedy this? are there two concentric shafts, one outer squared off one and an inner threaded one? If it has become dislocated surely pulling it back by force (screwing the bolt tighter) would cause damage to the mechanism inside unless the parts inside the rangeinder were properly aligned first?
Lilserenity
Well-known
Your other option in the UK is Malcolm Taylor (http://www.yell.com/listings/DoFind...aylor-Leica-Specialist/Photographic-Equipment) -- I've found him to be very good. He might be able to help.
Hope you get the M2 running well again, it's a great camera!
Hope you get the M2 running well again, it's a great camera!
fbf
Well-known
I would have sent it to either techs mentioned above then send it to Robert to paint in some exotic colors
35photo
Well-known
I purchased a nice user M2 week. So far so good. On mind a PC sync termanial was installed which sticks out a little bit. Does anyone know how to take it out? I tried to unscrew, pull it out and nothing?
Any Help, would be great!
Marko
Any Help, would be great!
Marko
Jonathan Pritchard
Newbie
Success!
I went ahead and took the top off, it was as nobbylon said, the shaft had been pushed up into the rangefinder and become dislocated, however I still can't see how it could be sorted without the top off for it to be relocated.
So all in all a very easy problem to fix, just need to find a washer in the appropriate size now and it'll be all ready to be re-calibrated.
Which means when my local shop said 'we don't have the parts' they either meant they didn't have any small washers, or they didn't have the tools, both seem a little weird to me.
I, probably rather stupidly, used just a set of jewlers screwdrivers and a set of needle nose pliers with the ends covered in rubber, seemed to work OK - I didn't end up adding any new scratches at least.
I went ahead and took the top off, it was as nobbylon said, the shaft had been pushed up into the rangefinder and become dislocated, however I still can't see how it could be sorted without the top off for it to be relocated.
So all in all a very easy problem to fix, just need to find a washer in the appropriate size now and it'll be all ready to be re-calibrated.
Which means when my local shop said 'we don't have the parts' they either meant they didn't have any small washers, or they didn't have the tools, both seem a little weird to me.
I, probably rather stupidly, used just a set of jewlers screwdrivers and a set of needle nose pliers with the ends covered in rubber, seemed to work OK - I didn't end up adding any new scratches at least.