Pentax k1000 Service Repair Manual

Pentax K-1000 Service manual

--- TABLE DES MATIERES / CONTENTS --- O contents 1 OPERATION AND FEATURES 4 OTHER FEATURES OF THE K1000 %= 5 REMOVING THE BOTTOM COVER 8 | REMOVING THE TOP COVER M 12 WHAT’S NEXT? 13 THE K1000 EXPOSURE-METER SYSTEM 15 THE PHOTO SWITCH , >< 16 TROUBLESHOOTING THE K1000 EXPOSURE METER O 21 CHECKING THE GALVANOMETER mje 23 CHECKING THE SPEED RESISTOR C 24 CHECKING THE DIAPHRAGM RESISTOR ® 25 REMOVING THE EXPOSURE-METER CIRCUIT BOARD ( ) 26 REPLACING THE SPEED RESISTOR 28 REMOVING THE DIAPHRAGM RESISTOR AND THE FRONT STANDARD 31 REMOVING THE PENTAPRISM FRAME 33 SHORTCUT TO REPLACING THE . GALVANOMETER 34. . CALIBRATING THE EXPOSURE METER 36 VARIATIONS ON THE K1000 METER : * :- 38 | REMOVING THE EXPOSURE-METER ASSEMBLY AS A UNIT Section1 — INTRODUCTION Pentax Spotmatics have long been among the most popular of the 35mm SLRs. Adding a built-in, cross-coupled exposure meter turned the early Pentax SLRs into ‘‘Spot- matics.’’ Yet even the recent Spotmatic models use basically the same shutter and transport systems as do the early Pentax cameras. Most of the variations you'll encounter among Pentax Spotmatics are in the exposure-meter systems. The original Spotmatics use stopped-down…