Originally posted by nightfly I've had this happen on my SPII. It usually occured when advancing the last frame at the end of the roll when there was not enough left to fully cock the shutter.
Once you've gotten the film out, make sure the film advance lever has fully cocked the shutter, then manually spin the sprocketed wheels on the film advance do-dad. The rewind button should pop out. Fire the shutter and advance again if not. Playing around with the film advance and sprocketed wheels did the trick for me.
God luck.
Thank you for the suggestion. I've made some headway, but not enough to be convinced. After playing around with the button and the sprocket and the winder, I've got the sprockets moving again when I cock the shutter, but the strange thing is the button is still depressed. If I hold the button in with my finger, that seems to disconnect the advance from the winder, however, the difference between engaged and disengaged seems to be mere millimeters.
However, it does "click" when I press the button in that tiny bit more, and as soon as I take my finger off the button the drive engages and seems to work fine. The button just hasn't popped out as far as it used to. The button is, however, spinning with the film advance, which I am led to understand is something that should only happen when the release is engaged.
Perhaps I'm concerned over nothing? I just would prefer to have it working reliably.