Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Hi Claes, > >This sounds like your M3 is in need of CLA. The film advance will appear >jammed (it does not function) until the shutter has completed its >cycle. In your case you 'helped' the cycle along but I fear it will >happen again. > >Dennis Dennis, You might be very right about the need of a CLA! And if this jamming = problem occurs again I will certainly hand it in for a complete = overhaul. However, I still haven=B4t had any problems with the = various shutter speeds. The exposure always seems to be all right. = Isn=B4t too slow shutter speeds usually the first sign of an overhaul = need? Claes Steven wrote: >so glad it worked - be careful with making sure shutter mechanism has >completed cycle (slower speeds) before advancing - should help too Once again thank you very much, Steven! And your theory that the = jamming might have been caused by not allowing the completion of the = cycle before advancing might very well be true. And now I want to = confess that it wasn=B4t really myself who played with the camera = when it jammed! It was my young son-in-law, Daniel, who had no = previous experience of Leica cameras. But it was me who actually = encouraged him to listen to the unique Leica sound with different = shutter speeds. He probably set it for a whole second and didn=B4t = wait long enough until he tried to advance. But no harm done since = you helped me out this time, Dennis. Claes