Recent content by Paul Nyholm

I'm not sure what I did differently this time, I popped open the the gear box one more time to make sure the gear was in the right place and it was. Put everything back together and I'm taking photos again! Thank you so much for your photos and walkthrough, you saved me a couple hundred dollars...

Also, after taking it apart again- I am spinning the gear manually using the exposed gear on the gearbox. The mirror raises and lowers as expected (maybe the answer to my previous question is whichever arrows leaves the mirror up?), but the shutter doesn't open a close. Two leaves on the shutter...

The gear has two arrows, which one is the correct one to line up? Or does it not matter? I tried putting it together with an arrow lining up, but I still get the error message. This time however I hear what sounds like 3 shutter/mirror cycles. After cycling, the arrow no longer lines up (which I...

I definitely understand how a screw would work, and I saw your post to gerryd80, but I can't visualize what you're saying about heating up the wire. Do you happen to have a photo to explain a little better?

Just finished pulling the sucker apart and found the gear with one broken rivet. Is there anything else you would recommend doing before I start putting it back to together with a new gear? Some people mention using small screws in place of the plastic rivet, is it worth it? Just want to make...