K10 D Focus Mode Lever
Posted 07/11/2011 - 23:26 - Helpful Comment
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Brave man!
Sometimes the click's on lens aperture rings are provided by a ball bearing pushed by a spring. They may use the same arrangement to give the clicks to the focus mode switch.
Just a guess but it may work the same way and would have dislodged when the switch was removed.
Sometimes the click's on lens aperture rings are provided by a ball bearing pushed by a spring. They may use the same arrangement to give the clicks to the focus mode switch.
Just a guess but it may work the same way and would have dislodged when the switch was removed.
Bob
Posted 08/11/2011 - 11:06
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Thanks Bob. The "ball bearing" is so tiny it could even be a rogue blob of solder. I will dismantle the donor camera, paying very careful attention to the presence of any "ball bearings" in the vicinity of the focus mode switch. Thanks once again.
Posted 08/11/2011 - 21:10 - Helpful Comment
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Looking at the 'exploded parts diagram' there isn't a separate ball-bearing, but it might be part of the switch and got dislodged by the breakage.
Posted 11/11/2011 - 15:12
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http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x425/pollyrobby/SG1065671.jpg
Using the donor camera,I discovered that the small ball bearing nestles between a small hole in the end of the metal lever of the switch & the camera body. It's a very crude arrangement IMHO, but it works. Using the service manual, it is quite easy to replace this switch. Firstly remove the base,(11 small screws)& then the front (6 screws), 1 of which is in the battery compartment base & 2 concealed under the rubber cover on the camera front.
Thanks for the hints & advice received from the posters above.
Using the donor camera,I discovered that the small ball bearing nestles between a small hole in the end of the metal lever of the switch & the camera body. It's a very crude arrangement IMHO, but it works. Using the service manual, it is quite easy to replace this switch. Firstly remove the base,(11 small screws)& then the front (6 screws), 1 of which is in the battery compartment base & 2 concealed under the rubber cover on the camera front.
Thanks for the hints & advice received from the posters above.
Posted 11/11/2011 - 21:43
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At least you know where it came from now and it didn't drop out of somewhere else important!!
Bob
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