Perhaps you can order the part (just a plastic ring with a tiny piece of 
metal on it) yourself from Pentax and then designed what to do next. It's a 
few buck only as I remember.

regards,
Alan Chan

>I am sure it will be a quick repair (IF I can do it myself - I am
>pretty sure my local authorised Pentax repair would overcharge me - I
>have had bad dealings with them in the past. Hopefully I can get the
>part elsewhere).
>
>I was just hoping that a more reliable body part could be inserted
>there instead of the plastic one. This one failed me during a paid
>assigment where I fortunately used a spotmeter as my exposure meter
>(not metering TTL at all) so no ruined pictures, fortunately.
>
>Frantisek


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