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Subject: [Leica] My M2 is stuck!
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:05:47 -0700
References: <A70183E9-99F7-44B3-9362-82BFC4629940@frozenlight.eu>

1 rewind button or lever.  if button press advance if lever move to r and 
back a couple times wind

2 try cable release

3 if not m2-r pull spool try advance
 try to move advance with spool removed gently w tool

4 curtains on track   closed

5 gently move the black bar of curtain w thumbnail 

6 excuse to buy another m leica

good luck

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 15, 2023, at 12:59 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
> wrote:
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> ?So, here I am, in Paris until Friday, with fantasies of being HCB with my 
> M2, and all of a sudden the camera will not advance! I had taken a 
> picture, everything seemed normal, but then the camera would not advance 
> the film no matter how much I cursed it.  I resigned myself to not being 
> able to pretend to be HCB on this trip, rewound the half-finished roll of 
> Acros and put the Leica away in my suitcase. But I really wonder how this 
> happens. I had the camera CLAd not too long ago, in 2020 or 2021, and it 
> has been flawless until now. 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> 
> Alicante, Spain
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