[LRFlex] Re: R8 Winder problem?

  • From: "Ong Pang Jin" <pjong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:12:18 +0800

Hi David,

I had the same problems as yours, but it is working well after 2nd try to
re-attache the winder.
and that is one time it totally stop working after 1 roll of film.(have to
use the manual way...)
dun know why too..





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Pinkerton" <gpinkcp@xxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:17 AM
Subject: [LRFlex] Re: R8 Winder problem?


> Not the exact same experience, David, but I have discovered that the
> contacts on the R8's back door are very sensitive. The winder contacts may
> be just as sensitive.
>
>
> >From: David Young <dnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [LRFlex] R8 Winder problem?
> >Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:38:25 -0700
> >
> >
> >I had a curious experience a couple of days ago. I put my motor-winder R8
> >on the body and then put some film in the camera.  I expected the winder
to
> >auto-load the film, as usual, but nothing happened!
> >
> >I could load the film with the manual wind lever and the camera powered
up
> >and worked normally.  But the winder would not wind the film!  However,
the
> >power rewind worked just fine!
> >
> >I removed the winder several times, inspecting and cleaning the contacts.
> >Each time, when reinstalled, the symptoms were the same.
> >
> >About the 5th time I tried removing/installing the winder, it started to
> >run as normal and hasn't 'hiccupped' since.
> >
> >Has anybody here had a similar experience?  Has anybody found the
> >cause/cure?
> >
> >Many thanks!
> >----------
> >
> >David Young,     | égalité, liberté,
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> >
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