Shutter Speed Dial Malfunction

[js670]

So, I must first admit that I don't take the best care of my ZM. I use it fairly regularly, and have it always kicking around loose at the bottom of my bag, often accompanied by a few books, my iPod, mobile etc... so yeah, now that's out of the way...

I took my camera (which has survived for two years in these conditions) out of my bag this evening to find that the shutter speed dial has popped off. The pieces I know have are: the main camera body, a spring, the main dial, the ISO speed plate, the shutter speed plate, and some sort of cap to go over the spindle.

Does anyone know how I can put this back together?

Best wishes,

Jon

 

[monopix]

Hi Jon,

If no one else can help before, I'll take mine off tomorrow and let you know. I have removed it before but the details escape me.

 

[monopix]

Reassembling ZM shutter speed dial

Reassembling ZM shutter speed dial

Hi Jon,

OK, here it is...

The parts you should have are shown here in the order they are fitted.

They are (from the right) the fixing screw, the main dial, a washer, the ISO dial, a spring, a plastic housing and a metal plate (the plastic housing and the metal plate might have got left on the camera, but I'll assume not.

This shows how the plastic housing and the metal plate mate together. You might find it easier to do this first before putting them on the spindle or you might find it easier to do them one at a time. Note the forked piece which mates with a lever in the camera.

Here's the lever in the camera. The lever rotates smoothly (no click stops) by about 180 degrees so, if the fork has engaged it properly then you'll be able to rotate the plastic housing by the same amount. If it rotates more than that, you've missed.

Once you have the plate and the housing in place, you can sit the spring in position.

Then you need to fit the ISO plate. Note there is a lug on the plate.

And that lug engages with the notch in the plastic housing.

When you fit the ISO plate you are compressing the spring so this is where it gets interesting as you need to hold the ISO plate down against the pressure of the spring while fitting the remaining parts.

Fit the washer next and make sure also the notches in the spindle and the metal plate, fitted first, now line up.

Now fit the main dial making sure the lugs fit in the notches correctly.

And finally fit the screw. The screw has two holes in it to tighten it with a wrench but I just use the end of my finger. If you stretch a latex glove over the end of your finger for grip, you'll be able to tighten the screw sufficiently.

Hope that helps.

Let me know how you get on.

Peter

 

[js670]

Hi Peter,

That's extremely kind of you, I'm very grateful.

I'll let you know how I get on later today!

Best,

Jon

 

[Photon42]

Wow, monopix. What a detailed answer. I'm impressed.

 

[clicker]

You rock Monopix !

 

[rpsawin]

Monopix,

This is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to RFF. Great job!

Best regards,

Bob

 

[Papercut]

hope it never happens to me, but at least now I'm reasonably confident I could fix it if it does. truly great post, monopix 🙂

 

[sepiareverb]

This thread should be retitled and should be a sticky.

 

[monopix]

This thread should be retitled and should be a sticky.

But how do you go about making it a sticky? I've never yet got a response out of the admin for this site but I assume they have to do it.

I've just bumped up an older thread about rangefinder adjustment which would make another good sticky (I think) but how?

 

[js670]

Success! Thanks again, Peter; you made it very easy.

Best,

Jon

 

[jonmanjiro]

Good work monopix!!!

During a recent trip to Italy, a big dollop of melting gelato landed on the shutter speed dial of my ZI gooing up the ISO dial so much that it refused to move. After getting back home, I pulled the shutter speed dial off to clean it up. Was a little tricky getting it back together, but I managed after a bit of trial and error. Would have been much easier if I had this thread to reference!