Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, Yes, go for it but do the following. 1)turn the power off and remove the battery. 2)using a small jewelers flat blade screwdriver carefully pull the offending blade out and then slide it in the appropriate slot behind/infront of the the next blade. Sometimes you have to pull all the blades out to get them in the correct order. Think of a swiss army knife with all the tools lined up in their slot. Take you time and if some blades have a small crease the shutter will still fire and operate. When you get home try to get the unuseful idiots at Leica to give you a quote on replacing the shutter. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > LUG: > > My intrepid M8 locked up this morning while I was shooting photos > from a boat in southern India. No, I didn't drop it in the water! I > was using the 75/1.4 lens and when I pressed the shutter button, > instead of going snkclk, the M8 just went snk and "Shutter Fault" > showed up on the screen. When I removed the lens, I could see that > the bottom edge of the top blade of the shutter is stuck slightly > behind the top edge of the second blade. It looks like I could just > flip the edge up and over and everything would be fine, but my > business manager insists that I write to the LUG for advice before I > touch anything inside the M8. I'm used to making repairs on my film > M's but haven't attempted much inside the digital ones. We have four > more days in India and I'd hate not to have my M8 for Mumbai. > > Has anybody seen this fault and fixed it? TIA for any advice. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > http://leicatraveler.blogspot.com/ > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com