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That would be me.

Removed rewind knob and spindle from the new Minolta to adjust the loose ISO dial, and for some reason shut the film door! Now I can't open the film door without the rewind crank in place and I can't fit the rewind crank without the door being open! :clap:

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This could end up as a long thread!
My nomination is for my mate, Dennis.
His Mrs is down with sumat, so he decides to wash the cushion covers before crimbo, reads the washing instructions, temp, cycle etc and it says 'wash seperate' meaning dont wash with other clothes, different colours etc. Well, you know what I'm going to say, he washed each cover on it's own! 12 wash cycles of 1 hour! would have been cheaper to buy a new set!
 
The only way that I can see you solving this by is removing the top plate and pulling up the catch manually by hand. Looking at pictures of the XD7 it looks like the procedure should be similar to that of my Minolta SR-T 303 which was the previous high end Minolta camera.
Look out for hidden screws behind other things - a classic Minolta design (Like having the last screw on the 303 behind the red enamaled dot above the mount to indicate where to line up the red dot on the lens, where no one would think of looking!)

Good luck...
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
That would be me.

Removed rewind knob and spindle from the new Minolta to adjust the loose ISO dial, and for some reason shut the film door! Now I can't open the film door without the rewind crank in place and I can't fit the rewind crank without the door being open! :clap:

:amstupid:
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Not funny @ all :D

Thanks for giving me a laugh tho' :D

Toonie
 
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Well that was a 2 minute job that took nigh on 2 hours to sort!

After unsuccesfully attempting to remove the door from the hinge in the vain hope it may swing open, I dsicovered that if you remove the bottom plate from the camera, the bottom of the latch mechanism is revealed, push it in and hey presto the door swings open.

But as if that could be the end of the story, oh no. Turns out that Minolta thought it would be a good idea to put a detent on the rewind spindle, just in case it should drop into the empty film chamber if the crank is removed (why they though this important is anyones guess!). What does that mean? well it means the spindle needs to be fitted with a special tool.

If you shine a light into the chamber and look down the hole, you will see a piece of wire across the hole, which when in use sits in a nice little groove in the spindle (I did wonder ehy it had said groove after removng it). This means you cannot simply push the spindle back up, as although the wire is sprung, the end of the spindle is not tapered, therefore has no effect whatsoever on the wire.

After much faffing around with paper clips and what was once a G string on my bass, I eventually hit a brain wave, and made a taper - from PVC tape. I wrapped it round the threads untill it was flush with the spindle major diameter and fashioned the end into a cone, voila the spindle now goes through the hole, and I can fit the crank back on and forget I ever tried to tighten one measly screw. :bang:

(On a side note the ISO dial is now fully sorted, but the air damper is next for attention)
 
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Alan Clogwyn said:
Well that was a 2 minute job that took nigh on 2 hours to sort!

After unsuccesfully attempting to remove the door from the hinge in the vain hope it may swing open, I dsicovered that if you remove the bottom plate from the camera, the bottom of the latch mechanism is revealed, push it in and hey presto the door swings open.

But as if that could be the end of the story, oh no. Turns out that Minolta thought it would be a good idea to put a detent on the rewind spindle, just in case it should drop into the empty film chamber if the crank is removed (why they though this important is anyones guess!). What does that mean? well it means the spindle needs to be fitted with a special tool.

If you shine a light into the chamber and look down the hole, you will see a piece of wire across the hole, which when in use sits in a nice little groove in the spindle (I did wonder ehy it had said groove after removng it). This means you cannot simply push the spindle back up, as although the wire is sprung, the end of the spindle is not tapered, therefore has no effect whatsoever on the wire.

After much faffing around with paper clips and what was once a G string on my bass, I eventually hit a brain wave, and made a taper - from PVC tape. I wrapped it round the threads untill it was flush with the spindle major diameter and fashioned the end into a cone, voila the spindle now goes through the hole, and I can fit the crank back on and forget I ever tried to tighten one measly screw. :bang:

(On a side note the ISO dial is now fully sorted, but the air damper is next for attention)
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I've really enjoyed this thread so far and look forward to the air damper being sorted...
 
Tina, do I detect a certain amount of Schadenfraude in your post? :D

Andy
 
This little suckr is dstined to defeat me, Modified a screwdriver as required and the actual head is rotating in the shaft! Stupidly tight and tiny screws do my head in!

Currently waiting for the plastic to set on super screwdriver no.2!
 
erm sorta like locking yourself out of your car :(
 
I've done that before now too.

Well the XD died, not because of me this time though - the self timer has broken, jammingthe shutter release in the process. Unfortunatley to fix it requires venturing right into the heart of the beast which is too much for me, so it'll be off to Miles Whitehead after Xmas or I'll get a new one, whichever is cheapest.
 
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