Yashica YEM-35 Meter Repair

farlymac · 04-24-2012

Don't know how many would be interested in this, but it's always neat to see the insides of a meter. This one had a broken wire to one of the battery terminals, and was an easy fix. A little cleaning, some adjusting, and it's good as new.

Opening The Meter by br1078phot, on Flickr

Broken Wire Pulled by br1078phot, on Flickr

Heat Shrink by br1078phot, on Flickr

675 In Place by br1078phot, on Flickr

Job Completed by br1078phot, on Flickr

Complete set with narrative at
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjzBpHSz

PF

rjbuzzclick · 04-25-2012

Small world...I just did this exact repair on the exact meter last week. On mine, the wire broke right at the solder point on the + cap. There was enough extra wire length inside the case that I didn't have to extend it.

farlymac · 04-25-2012

Yeah, I'd expect that to be the more common fault.

PF

Penny Lane · 07-19-2012

I fixed another one of these yesterday. Mine, for some reason, differs in that it had a trim pot in stead of the fixed resistor hooked up to the CdS cell. The trim pot had rotted out from battery acid, but I replaced it with one of the tiny little pots you find on the main PCB of an Olympus OM-10 (of which I tore a seized-up example down once). Strangely, it now happily meters the same as the little Sekonic L216 I use and know to be 'good'

So, I promoted it from my junk equipment collection to my Yashica-A kitbag.

Derk

farlymac · 07-19-2012

It may have been a later production model, introduced as 'improved'.

PF