Yashica Electro GSN Problem

[b1bmsgt]

The red light coming on without depressing the shutter button makes me think that the POD you installed might be a tad too thick, causing the electrical brushes to be too far down and contacting the "over" area of the contact board.

Russ

[Argenticien]

Thanks Russ. That would certainly make sense, the more I understand how these brushes and the metering circuits work. Looks like I'll need to take this puppy apart and redo the pad replacement . It turns out that in my test roll, once I got it scanned, the wide-aperture shots indicated that the camera is back-focusing, so while I'm in there I'll have to adjust the RF as well. (I know that could be done under the accessory shoe with the camera top on, but if I'm going to have it topless anyway...). Ah, the joys of a five-dollar camera buy.
--Dave

[micromoogman]

To clearify, it's not a POD you install, it's a pad..."Pad Of Death". That might be fixed with a rod adjustment.

[b1bmsgt]

Rod adjustments can't compensate for a deteriorated POD. The spacing that the POD provides is crucial to the PROPER operation of the camera. Rod adjustments are stopgap measures at best.

Russ