OK how am I to re-attach the dial on my EM5?

[ConchyJoe]

I remember some talk about this but can't find it. Can I just put it back with a dab of superglue?

 

[FranzoMCK]

Sorry for your inconvenience with the camera.
Please,could you post a picture of the manufacturing defect; I think that the rest ofthe OM-D user would like to see what is going on with the camera.
Thanks and hopefully you can repair as soon as possibleyour camera

 

[jlyle]

The dial on my OM-D came off while I was on vacation in Mexico. I used a small piece of duct tape, folded over to make it double sided, to hold the dial in place. When I got home, I packed the camera off to Olympus America for repair. A friend contacted Olympus about using superglue on the dial and was told doing so could invalidate the warranty. I'd give them a call; they have had a number of these defects and may have a better solution.

 

[PHIL RUDIN]

Hi Bob,

The superglue was one of the fixes I have seen in past posts about this problem. In over 10,000 shots now I have not yet had this problem. Pasts posts were reported by Nauticam E-M5 housing owners and as I recall you have the Olympus housing. Interesting to hear this is a problem common to all housings and clearly a result of a poor design by Olympus.

Phil Rudin

 

[ConchyJoe]

Thanks. I will take some pics and post them. Sending it back is not an option.at the moment. I will hold off on the super glue and use little bit of ds tape. I did that to get my e420 to word in the e410 housing..

 

[guyharrisonphoto]

Mine came off after about 1000 shots, right at the end of my trip to Curacao.

Krazy Glue has done the trick! But, I did not know about that warranty thing. it just did not seem like a big issue to glue it back on. I the camera fails for something not related I can't imagine they would try to use that as an excuse. If the glue damages something, well, my bad.

I wonder, is it something about how the housing wheel pushes on that dial? The dial is attached with very weak sticky tape, when mine came off I could barely even tell it was sticky at all. Maybe just a manufacturing thing. It probably does not happen in normal use on land, but maybe the housing wheel pushes on it in a way that makes it come up.

In any case, the crazy glue seems solid as a rock compared to before so I expect no more problems.

 

[jlyle]

I now carry both superglue and ds tape in my travel kit. People who don't shoot underwater have also reported the defect, so it isn't the housings.

 

[ConchyJoe]

as I recall you have the Olympus housing

Yes, Oly housing. I'll holler next weekend, maybe we can all meet up at BRP for a burger.. Staying at the Super8 on US1..

 

[guyharrisonphoto]

Best Burger in town!! Keep in touch via email to see if we can get a dive at BHB.

 

[ConchyJoe]

Best Burger in town!! Keep in touch via email to see if we can get a dive at BHB.

Will do. Two others so far, Kevin(Mntlblock) and his buddy. Kevin wants to meet you. I really think a Datura night dive is the ticket!