Mainly boomerang stuff today.
Stopped by Camera Clinic to make another payment on the FM2n that I'm reacquiring. Found out that, yes, the rumor is true. After 37 years, the shop is finally closing down. In any case, asked if the owner had any junker Nikons he wanted to get rid of. Came home with a box of six Nikkormat bodies for free. Four are bodies I've owned in the past 4-8 years. Two weren't. The boomerang bodies are: Nikomat FTn in black with dead meter cells and a worn ring resistor (being parted out), a chrome Nikomat FTn that was missing parts and is jammed (also being parted out), a Nikkormat FT that had an FTn meter movement installed, and missing nameplate (anyone have an FS or FT nameplate in chrome that they don't need? It's the flat one), and a Nikkormat FT3 that I'd donated to the shop with an erratic meter and some shutter firing issues. Meter was overhauled, but the firing issues remained. Fixed that problem a couple hours ago and also swapped on a nicer back. Still need to replace the mismatched leatherette piece on the wind-side front of the body with one that I pulled from a junker late model FTn last year. Also, like the FT, I'd like to find a proper chrome nameplate for it. At this time, it wears the chrome FTn's nameplate
The rest were a chrome Nikkormat FTn with weak, but smooth meter - corrosion on (+) terminal in chamber - and bad foam; and a Nikomat EL in black that had the usual lost rewind knob issue with the shaft dropped into the film chamber. The chrome FTn is being refoamed and will be getting its contacts cleaned before it's pressed into service. I may be picking up a chrome FT2 that's pretty clean, but needs a replacement shutter speed ring - meter's very erratic when you adjust the shutter speed, but glass smooth when the aperture ring is moved.
To the poster above me, nice FT2.
-J
