Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/23

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Subject: [Leica] M8 Shutter Fault, Help!
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Sat Feb 23 14:51:06 2008

Tina,

This would be a touchy thing to try, and will take a delicate touch.  But i 
guess it would be worth the try to get you through the last couple of days.  
Good luck.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>
>
> 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 
> 
> 
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