Oh Slynky! We used to have a Yashica "Electro 35"...great name aint it! ~ It was the family holiday camera...zillions of slides of us looking nerdy taken with that one! From what I can remember it was a solid little devil! You're already well into the project...lol, breaking things is easy...putting them back together is the hard bit...Bigg Jeff, what an elegant (and lateral-thinking) solution... ;-)>