Found Long Shot: Yashica MAT-124G Hood Spring

[chuckroast]

I was replacing the focusing screen on my MAT-124G and one of the spring pieces that makes the hood pop up, uh sprung into the warrens of my shop. After two hours, I've given up looking.

Anyone got one to sell?

Nevermind. After hours of napping, the missing part appeared on one final sweep of the shop. Where was it? At the bottom of an almost empty box of nitrile gloves.

There is, indeed, a God ...

 

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[MattKing]

"Long Shot" - is that what the missing spring did?
I deleted your duplicate of this thread.
Hope you find one.

 

[chuckroast]

"Long Shot" - is that what the missing spring did?
I deleted your duplicate of this thread.
Hope you find one.

That's exactly what it did. It's hiding in the shadows of my shop laughing at me ...

 

[Alan W]

“Any tool,when dropped,will make its way to the least accessible corner of the workshop”
Anthony’s First Workshop Law

 

[chuckroast]

“Any tool,when dropped,will make its way to the least accessible corner of the workshop”
Anthony’s First Workshop Law

That is also where all nonstandard fasteners, odd mechanical contrivances, and no longer manufactured specialty parts go.