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I picked up an old Olympus XA last week (inspired by this thread).
The rangefinder had an odd fault where it was fine moving the focus towards infinity, but would then return very slowly toward the minimum distance. It would take about 5 seconds for the rf patch to float back. Most odd I thought.
So I attacked it with a screwdriver. My god, there are a lot of very small delicate bits in that camera!
Fortunatly with a bit of help from the interweb and a repair manual downloaded, I was able to remove the rangefinder mechanism, adjust the spring which was stuck, I then used a tiny dab of nail varnish (my wifes) on a needle to lock the screw in place.
I put it all back together and hey presto, it seems ok.
I put a roll of Trix through it yesterday, dev'ed it last night and scanned a couple of frames this morning. So far so good.
The biggest problem with the XA, was that whilst looking for information for the repair, I got reading about other compact rangefinders. I then stumbled across the Contax T.
In a momment of madness, I purchased one from an online shop in Hong Kong. It should arrive next week.....