Paul, I took a close look at the flash. The pin arrangement looks like a 5 spot on a dice cube. v v v v p The locking pin is the front right spot on the mounted flash foot.
The pin is entirely spring loaded, ie. rolled into the locked position, the pin sticks out but can be pushed flat and flush to the flash bottom. (If you loaded the flash onto an old flash shoe without the locking hole, the lock can be worked, but the pin won't go down and engage.) The pin is loaded onto the end of a weak spring that pushes it down. As for retracting the pin, it seems like the top of the pin has a lip riding on the locking mechanism. I can't hold the pin "OUT" when I swing the locking bar around toward un-FIX. By the time the locking ear points to the back of the camera, the pin is up. Still it's strange. I can't imagine that the leverage of the Fix thingie will not put the pin out or straighten it out. Regards, Bob S. On Jan 27, 2008 4:27 PM, Brendan MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > I just noticed something, ignore my last post! > > There's a pin rides on the top of the lock if you look > at the front of the flash. That is part of the > mechanism for the locking pin. With the flash in the > locked position, use a small flat bladed screwdriver > to lift this pin up and that should free the locking > pin (as long as it's not bent). > > -Brendan > > --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, it's true. I mounted the 540 flash on the K10D > > this afternoon in > > an effort to shoot some birdies, and now it won't > > come off. I tried a > > little bit of WD40 ( a light lubricant), lots of > > tugging and pulling. > > I'm guessing that a screw has come loose on the hot > > shoe and is > > locking it in place. Any ideas? I'm thinking I'm > > going to have to > > send camera and flash to Pentax. A pisser. > > Paul > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
