the cl crapped out today...

[FrankS]

I should get me some of those pills! 🙂

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I think I need them worse than you...but at least I'm focusing on one system. 😀

 

[back alley]

all my stuff is m mount. that's one system.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Yup. I'm focusing on screwmount.

Big decision to do it, though. I think that I made the decision because I know that I can get excellent stuff for my Canon P and, really, I don't need another body. I just need to figure out my lens situation. I really do love the two I have, but the 50 Nokton is calling me... 😛

 

[back alley]

It sounds like the little steel pin that the meter arm pivots around has slipped out of one of the brass bushings. With the lens off look at the upper corner of the light box closest to the speed dial,
observe the meter arm and you'll see it pivots on a pin that should be flush with two bronze or brass bushings at the top, one on either side of the black parallel steel plates.
You can look at the other bushing with the shutter on b and held open with a cable release.
If the pin is slid out of one (probably the front {lens side}) bushing, the pin should be sticking back towards the shutter, and maybe you can push it back into place, it should be flush with the brass surface.
It appears the brass bushing should be struck with a punch next to the pin so as to distort the brass thus holding the pin.
Hitting the innards of the camera with a hammer driven punch sounds terrifying to me, so maybe, if that's it after all, I don't know exactly how to affix the pin short of asking an expert.
I was gonna say super glue on a needle or maybe nail polish, applied with the minimum amount possible on the pin/brass but if any of that got into the rotating parts, tragedy!

The above is based purely on conjecture based on staring at my cl's meter arm mechanism and trying to see what must fail in order to make the arm behave the way the broken cl was described. While I have experience in meter repair and rangefinder calibration of the CL, I have not had to work on the meter arm yet..

there is a brass pin that looks like it acts as a spacer and maybe a pivot point at the top between 2 parallel flat black metal rows. that very small brass pin is now in my hands and no longer in the camera...oops:bang:

definitely needs a pro's touch now.

 

[clintock]

OOps, don't wind or fire it then, but the good news is that a local general practitioner camera shop could possibly fix that, since the problem is now very obvious. The shutter not working was probably due to the meter arm interference, so with the pin back in all may be healed, unless that pin actually broke instead of just slid out.. hurry and tape the pin to the camera somewhere before the floor gets it!

 

[back alley]

the pin is safe inside a film can.
i may send it off to dave's recommendation in toronto.
i sent an email but it bounced back to me.
i will try calling during the day.

 

[Dougg]

The black Z-I, mmmmmmmm 😀

 

[back alley]

The black Z-I, mmmmmmmm 😀

i could do it if i sold some stuff.

gonna be some tossin' & turnin' tonight.

 

[harmsr]

Joe,

My vote is the black ZI. Like you said, you would still have plenty of great glass and now two identical bodies from the function side.

Just my $.02.

Hope everything works out.

Ray

 

[back alley]

i'm very tempted.

 

[wlewisiii]

I'd tell you to go for the black ZI too, but first I gotta figure out how to get the coins for you to sell me that CL "as is"...

What? :angel:

William

 

[Rich Silfver]

there is a brass pin that looks like it acts as a spacer and maybe a pivot point at the top between 2 parallel flat black metal rows. that very small brass pin is now in my hands and no longer in the camera...oops:bang:

definitely needs a pro's touch now.

May I suggest painting as a hobby? 🙂

 

[back alley]

May I suggest painting as a hobby? 🙂

geez, the camera is 30 years old, parts break.
after all, it's only a leica!

🙂

 

[Rich Silfver]

geez, the camera is 30 years old, parts break.
after all, it's only a leica!

🙂

Well..it's a CL...it's sort of a Leica 😉

 

[back alley]

a new day!
a good night's sleep.
but no closer to deciding anything.

my leaning is to trim down my gear, sell a few things and buy the black zi.
a sort of back to basics thing.

the good news is i have enough gear to shoot with without having to decide right now so there is no rush to decide , other than from the voices in my head...😉

joe

 

[rover]

That means the 2 CLs and the 40 go?

Rest does work wonders. I find I need more to recover later in the week.

 

[back alley]

if i were to sell in order to fund the zi, i would sell the working cl, the 21,40 and 90/4 and likely the bessa L.

 

[kbg32]

Joe,

Oktoberfest is almost upon us. Everything always looks brighter during this month. Even the weather. Don't sell stuff you'll regret later. I'm sure you'll sort all this out in due time.

Cheers.

 

[back alley]

october is coming...yes, my birthday...and the first anniversary of my heart attack!!

maybe i should act sooner than later😉