Glenn, The return spring on the ME is notorious. I had one break years ago. The repair was expensive because the bit of spring got into the gears of the winding mechanism.
It would be a good idea to remove the broken part. You will learn to live with pushing the rewind lever back in. Regards, Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Is the repair manual for the ME one of the ones that has been scanned and put online already? I've got an ME that suffered a fall a while back (I've since switched brand of camera strap, as the style I was using managed to let go of two different cameras on different occasions). Everything seems to work fine except for one annoying detail: after I advance the film, I have to push the lever back into place myself; it no longer returns on its own. Someone (Fred?) suggested that it was probably a spring having gotten knocked loose in the bottom, so this afternoon I finally pulled the bottom plate off, and sure enough, there's the return spring in plain sight. The end that attaches to the chassis appears to be properly connected, which means it must have come loose from the shaft (it doesn't look like it's coiling when I cock the shutter, so I figure it is in fact a knocked-loose spring problem instead of something else getting bent and creating too much friction or something). What I can't see is how to get at the attachment point without making a bunch of other, tinier springs go sproing. I'm at the point now where I have to decide a) whether to press forward, b) whether to close the thing back up and live with it as it is, or c) hope that I can save up enough for a professional repair before it absolutely drives me crazy. (Note that this is my number four K-mount body, so I shouldn't have to deal with it all _that_ often ... but it does get its share of film run through it anyhow.) Has anyone else here done this repair on an ME or another body in which that section of the mechanism is the same as an ME? Pointers? Clues? >> - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
