A Camera Club member gave me an OM-10 saying " The winder doesn't work" -- I had a look and also the mirror was up and he had it set to 'Manual Adaptor' instead of 'Auto' as there was NO Manual Adaptor with it.
Well, I put in new batteries and put camera on 'Check' and LO !! and BEHOLD !! It suddenly creaked into life !
So I took off the base-plate 2 screws with my JIS Screwdriver and had a look then put ONE drop of Sewing Machine Oil into a dish and picked up some on a very small brush and very carefully lubricated all the cogs and levers, then put the batteries back and it winds on 'sweetly' now and all works . So soon to put a FILM in and try it out -- the RED LED's come on in the viewfinder.

well - it all WORKS now !! I found a Feb 2000 dated Fuji Superia 800 so rated it at 200ASA and did some test shots-- 'grainy' but all good exposures !
OM-10 test 01 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
OM-10 Test 02 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

pentaxpete said:

well - it all WORKS now !! I found a Feb 2000 dated Fuji Superia 800 so rated it at 200ASA and did some test shots-- 'grainy' but all good exposures !
OM-10 test 01 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
OM-10 Test 02 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

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Nice photos. Whilst on the subject of power winders...my cover cap has gone missing. Any ideas as to where I could buy a spare one?