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I am now more Awesome, if thats possible
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The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
in Zocalo v2.0
I can add 'DSLR camera repair technician' to my resume.
I did the same thing as this guy did, though I didn't have the additional fuse blow problem.
[url]http://www.abo.fi/~jskata/300Drepair/[/url]
I also made one simple and effective enhancement. Where this guy uses a piece of coiled steel wire, I used a good ole fashioned drawing pin. Filed to 3.5mm long it was perfect, a good close fit in the hole, with a large broad head surface to bond the pin to the case.
This problem is an inherent design flaw, the plastic pin from the factory is way to light, way too loaded during use and bond to fail. I'm actually quite happy to replace it. It looks like techs had already been inside the case before me and reglued the old pin back in place, (it took me a lot of working with an extremely fine carving chisel to get the sucker out), it had been sheared off at the base.
So... my once gimped camera is now 100% functional. An 800 buck camera for 500. Even given this little repair too me about six hours to do, (very carefully), I think I'm still very much in front.
Now all I need is an 85mm 1.8 portrait lens and perhaps a Katz eye focusing screen... and I'm set !
:D
*looks rather too pleased with himself*
*polishes knuckles*
I did the same thing as this guy did, though I didn't have the additional fuse blow problem.
[url]http://www.abo.fi/~jskata/300Drepair/[/url]
I also made one simple and effective enhancement. Where this guy uses a piece of coiled steel wire, I used a good ole fashioned drawing pin. Filed to 3.5mm long it was perfect, a good close fit in the hole, with a large broad head surface to bond the pin to the case.
This problem is an inherent design flaw, the plastic pin from the factory is way to light, way too loaded during use and bond to fail. I'm actually quite happy to replace it. It looks like techs had already been inside the case before me and reglued the old pin back in place, (it took me a lot of working with an extremely fine carving chisel to get the sucker out), it had been sheared off at the base.
So... my once gimped camera is now 100% functional. An 800 buck camera for 500. Even given this little repair too me about six hours to do, (very carefully), I think I'm still very much in front.
Now all I need is an 85mm 1.8 portrait lens and perhaps a Katz eye focusing screen... and I'm set !
:D
*looks rather too pleased with himself*
*polishes knuckles*
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Great idea to document your work. :)