Not necessilary true or even probably true. I have purchased quite a few 25-30 year old Pentax bodies in new old stock conditon that ALL worked beatifully with regards to these pots. I think this so called pot problem doesn't exist at least in pentax cameras for the vast majority of the bodies still in existance.. jco
-----Original Message----- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:26 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: green button wars (again) they will fail by not being used. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 2:33 PM Subject: Re: green button wars (again) > I've got 35 year old cameras with their potentiometers still > working fine. Since I'm not using much film these days it's unlikely > they will ever fail.