Hacking the Akira for double exposure

The Akira 2000 is a cheap 35mm camera that renders pretty good pictures. I use it for my outings with the Lomographers of Acadiana and I have got some pretty good pictures with this camera. I wanted double exposure pictures like I am able to get with my Diana F+, so I followed instructions on an Instructables that I found (link). There are some differences that you will find, so I am here to point the differences out.

The instructions from Instructables:
1. Unscrew the one exposed screw on the right hand side of the camera.
2. Unscrew the central screw of the rewind crank.
3. Remove the rewind crank to reveal another screw.
4. Remove the screw underneath the rewind crank.
5. Remove the top of the camera.
6. At this point you can actuate the shutter mechanism a few times and it will become obvious how it works. A white plastic cam is the key to the mechanism. You have the option of gluing or tying a string (I use dental floss for its self-lubricating characteristics). To tie a string, I drilled a hole in the cam.
7. To feed the string outside the camera, drill a hole in the left hand side of the top plate.
8. If this is the only mod you want, just reverse the steps to reassemble the camera and there ya go.
9. Once you have everything together, trim the dental floss and put on a tab of some sort to use when pulling the string. I tried to engrave MX (multiple exposure) onto a brass tab.
10. Secure the tab to the camera to keep the string slack when in operation. I used hook and pile fasteners. Magnets would work as well, but only if you use something ferrous like a paperclip.

When the tab is kept slack, the shutter speed is unchanged (about 1/100th of a second). If the weight of the tab is hanging on the string, you will have a slower shutter speed. Pulling the string while firing the shutter will yield a slow shutter speed....maybe around 1/15 of a second?

How the Akira is different:
You will need a flat head screw driver to take the Akira logo off the front of the camera in order to remove the top of the camera:

Just get the edge of your screw driver under the label and pry up

Carefully lift off the top of your camera.
Your shutter button may fall out.

You will see the that there is no white plastic cam.
It is black on the Akira. This is where you
are going to drill a little hole. I used a Dremel.

The Akira does not have a hollow view finder.
Drill a hole to the right of the view finder on the back
if the top of the camera.

If you do not drill a hole on the back of the camera, the string
will get caught on the view finder (inside the front of the camera)
and the shutter will not close.

You can see the hole for the string

The Akira logo snaps right back on the front of the camera even
with the string attached.