Good to hear that there is at least one person out there, who shares my crazy idea of trying a DIY repair on a ME-F.
I got a ME-F which basically works, but has an issue: The metering would always be on, whenever the mode-dial is in the "Auto" position. You might think this is not a big deal, but it does prevent the camera from triggering the auto-focus.
In order not to destroy this beautiful item for my private museum I got another one with a stuck shutter for close to nothing from Ebay. Due to the similarity between ME Super and ME-F I started disassembling the camera using the following guides:
- ME Super service manual (available in several places in the internet)
- Disassembly instructions for ME Super, atrributed to Gordon Stalker (hard to find - PM me if you fail to locate it elsewhere)
- A blog by a repair maniac (Google for "Mystery Onion's Project Spotlight - Pentax ME Super")
With the help of these 3 sources (and some more Google picture search results) I was able to reanimate the stuck shutter. However after reassembly this ME-F suffers from the same issue like my first one and on top of it, the AF indicators are dead too.
For the next 2 months I donīt seem to have any spare time for another repair attempt, but I am very curious to see the results of this thread.