P3D Revere camera "feature"?

[MarkKernes@xxxxxxx]

I have two Revere cameras, both of which exhibit what I consider be be an
unusual trait: When I attach a metal flash-extender bar (don't know what to
call this thing, but it's a slide bar with a screw to attach the gadget to the
tripod mount hole, and a "cold shoe" for a flash at the other end. Henceforth,
I'll just call it "the bar." The bar is metal, as is the screw, but the bar is
coated with rubber material, which I assume is to aid in traction of some
sort.) and my problem is that when I run a pc cord from the flash adapter
fastened to my Revere, to the pc cord socket on my Vivitar 283, which is
mounted in the unpowered bracket on the bar, the camera shorts out when I try
to take a photo - I can feel the electricity flowing through the camera body.
However, when I mount the flash directly in the flash adapter atop the camera,
again using the pc cord to go from the adapter to the flash, there is no
problem. (It occurs to me that the lack of problem in this instance may be
that the electricity is simply traveling less distance from the adapter to the
flash, but I don't know that to be the case; I know little about that end of
physics.)

Anyway, since this happens on both my Reveres, I'm wondering if it's common to
ALL Reveres? If so, is it fixable?If NOT, is it fixable? And though the bar
itself has a rubber mat between the bar and the camera, would substituting a
plastic screw for the metal one that goes into the tripod hole help?

And speaking of "help" ... HELP!

Mark Kernes


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