adamflynn

Thanks for your reply, John. You’re right, I may have to resort to getting another camera for parts, since even the R Fork took a while to come up on eBay. I see people in forums that find XA’s or similar models for around $10 USD for parts, but online it seems to be up around the $70 mark. Sorry for the effect of the video! Hope you’ve recovered.

Thanks for your reply! I’d been staring at the exploded diagrams but apparently i’m not as mechanically inclined as I need to be. I believe the part I bent back into a circle split ring is part CA 873500 (spring), but I’m not quite sure where it goes in relation to the R Fork CE 317200 (which I’ve been wrongly calling the shaft until now). There are also parts CE318500 (R Fork Stopper), CE305200 (M Key Spring 1), and CE317600 (R Spring) which seem to be missing, unless they are between the top plate of the camera (which I haven’t removed) and the camera body. The R Spring seems to me to be the piece that would fit over the R Fork, which would prevent the loose play shown in the dizzying video. It’s possible that I lost the spring when I opened the camera after it broke, or maybe it ended up in the roll of film that I was rewinding when I broke it. Does it seem reasonable to install the R Fork with a spring over it to prevent the play when upside down? And if so, any suggestions on where to get a small spring that could work? Ebay didn’t turn up any results for any parts I’ve mentioned in this reply.

Hi Bebu, thanks for your reply! I will correct myself, The shaft and knob doesn’t fall completely out, it is stopped by the feet of the shaft. But there is loose play between it sitting in the normal position and to the point where you would pull up on the knob to open the camera back. I’ll attach a video. Is this normal, and if not how do i fix it?

I recently replaced the rewind shaft on my XA after one of the “feet” of the shaft broke off while rewinding a roll. I have two questions regarding this repair: 1. The rewind knob and shaft are loose, and when the lens cover is closed, and the camera is turned upside down, the knob and shaft will “fall out” until they are stopped by the “feet” inside the film cassette chamber. I can’t remember if this was the case with the original rewind knob, or if there should be something holding the knob in the top of the camera body when upside down. 2. A small metal washer/ring was removed when I took out the broken film rewind shaft. It was bent so that the last quarter of the metal before the “break” in the ring was bent outwards. I tried my best to bend it back into a round ring, with the two ends of the metal meeting up. I then wrapped it into the groove on the top end of the rewind shaft, assuming it was meant to keep the shaft from falling into the camera if you removed the rewind knob via the screw visible when the knob is lifted up. Was the bent shape the correct shape of the ring, or was I correct to bend it back into a circle? It doesn’t stay in the groove I placed it in, so as of right now I don’t think it’s serving a purpose. Thanks for your time if you’re reading this, and look forward to your expertise!