teadub wrote:Now I've taken it apart. I think it has seen better days. It has a little rust, and the solder joints for both the positive and the ground wires are severed from battery corrosion. I have the buy a new battery case and try to re-solder that to the circuit boad and see if that gets it going. (although I'll need to figure out where the positive connects) If anything else is wrong, I think I will need a service manual. Also I would like to get to the bottom of this 24 f.p.s. (this is an upgrade I wanted to get on this camera anyways and if i could figure it out, that would be great)
wow ... you got into the camera quickly ... for some reason it took me about 4 or 5 hours to figure it out ... was not very obvious to me how ot open it. but once opened, i learned quaickly it is a simply by design camera with not many frills inside.
regarding the two leads ... to make it simple, looking into the film bay door, the battery inserts to the left rear. there is a top and bottom terminal, that each have leads that connect to the little circuit board on the bottom side of the bay. of all the resistors on that little circuit board, the largest one has a lead directly to the front of that resistor(using the resistor only for visual reference, the lead has nothing to do with the resistor other then location). this lead goes to the BOTTOM terminal of the battery compartment. the other lead is located net to the little screw that attaches the circuit board to the chassis, and that lead goes to the TOP terminal in the battery compartment area. if you have not done so already, you will need ot remove the plate and the shutter assembly plate directly behind it to access the circuit board.
sadly, all of my dissassembly notes got water damaged or blew away during the hurricane last month. so if you are taking your camera apart, and if you have a digital camera, i would apreciate a few photos that show the 8 wires/leads that move from the chassis/body to the front lens and motor asembly ... i had to dissconnect a few of those when taking it apart and my notes that indicated what went where are now toast ... so to forgoe hours of testing/trial and error, some simply macro photos would be nice and certianly apreciated.
i want to get this camera out of my hair ... its been sitting on my desk forever now and i am sure garret would not mind having it back at this point. this particular cameras was dropped or something, and had physical faults/damage and not electronic or decomposing faults. so that was nice, but the one support rod that holds the front assembly ont othe body is made of copper and is form fitted to the plastic lens covering piece. so in order for me to repair it, i have to remove the light meter prism, use a dremel with a cutting wheel, cut the protruding plastic to a clean and level position allows the counter sunk remaining copper rod to be accessable, and then using a a small drill bit, drill a hole, use a threading bit to thread the hole, and then take a plastic formed piece from a mold of the original broken piece, and weld a small piece on the end with a threaded bolt to make up for the measure that was broken off and subsiqently cut off, and then screw it in and hope it is strong enough. seeing as how the other rods are glued or heat set into the plastic, i suppose once i have made usre it is straight and aligns correcrly with the body, i could put some of that engine block weld stuff that seems to hold anything ... just as a precaution.
eric
