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Replace M8 shutter or LCD rear screen?


Ernstk

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I've had TWO M8's shutters repaired by Leica for FREE long after warranty ended... you might want to just have Leica repair the one with the broken shutter.

It might be too late for that now!

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Removed inner plastic base plate to allow access to the two screws that hold the top plate in place. One is in the depths of the battery box, the other is accessed through the hole in the silver plate at the bottom of the photo.

It's tough to reach and I had to modify a Philips 00 screwdriver to fit. The screw can't be seen so I was working blind. I filed and sharpened the tip of the screwdriver to ensure a perfect fit and tried it for size on the battery box screw.

This was the most nerve-wracking part of the process. If I chewed up the screw then that would have ended the project. It's a captive screw and remains attached.

 

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Top plate removed, with only a ribbon connector holding it attached

 

 

Top plate free

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Removed leatherette covering to expose the 3 screws at each side that hold the two camera halves together

 

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The two halves wouldn't separate until I discovered a tiny screw that holds the bottom parts of the two pieces together.

Removed two ribbon connectors and one two wire connector.

 

 

Rear part, containing the LCD that I need, removed from main body.

 

 

Now to repeat the same process with camera 2...

 

My sincere thanks to Mark Norton,whose Anatomy of the M8 threads and other threads provided the guidance for me to undertake this.

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Donor rear half fitted to my M8.Reassembled loosely, just to check electrical connections

 

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Final assembly and very relieved!

 

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...maybe you can build  one for me without screen  ;)

 

lambda.

Hah, not sure I want to do that again! Some of those little electrical connectors are extremely difficult to fit together.

 

Ernst

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Sensational Ernst.  Congratulations...you are our new hero!

:D  :D

 

 

Thanks Dave. Not sure I'd go quite that far!

 

Ernst

 

tribute to whom tribute is due   ;)

 

lambda

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Braver than me Gungadin, .

 

We're you able to get at the inside of the top plate, to push out that ghastly dent?

 

Next job, see if you can "fix" the LCD, I find it incomprehensible that this is not possible.

 

Good work.

Gary

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