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anna567
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2d ago
Update: the shutter on a customer's Pentax K1000 jammed in my shop and I used a guitar pick to free it
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sullivan.piper
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5d ago
A guy at the Toledo camera show showed me the trick with stuck filter rings that I'd never heard of
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margaretj40
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6d ago
Pro tip: never trust a 'barely used' Nikon F3 from a garage sale in Fresno
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hernandez.brooke
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6d ago
Why I stopped using a hot air rework station on camera flex cables
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logan632
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8d ago
Leica M3 shutter curtain pinhole showed up 2 weeks after a $340 CLA, do I eat the cost or push back?
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holly_price
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9d ago
Hot take: that clicky Canon AE-1 shutter squeal is almost never the mirror box, and I proved it on my own bench
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sethmartinez
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10d ago
Hot take: a retired tech in Tucson told me to quit chasing mirror box screws with a magnet, and now I bag them by hand
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kelly968
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11d ago
Am I the only one who cleaned a 30 year old Nikon with vinegar and now it smells like a salad?
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laura_park
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12d ago
I dropped $180 on a Hakko FX-888D for board work at my bench in Tucson, and I'm still arguing with myself about it
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cooper.mark
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12d ago
A blob of solder fell into a Nikon F2 and I spent 2 hours hunting it with a flashlight
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miles581
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12d ago
Appreciation post: the old guy at my local shop in Fresno who told me to stop buying shutter assemblies sight unseen
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kim_martin
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15d ago
Shoutout to the repair shop owner in Tucson who told me he turns down 4 out of 10 jobs on purpose
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derekc30
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16d ago
Tried fixing a sticky aperture with lighter fluid, then naphtha, and wow was that a mistake
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leo_jackson15
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17d ago
Hot take: picked the 20 dollar heat gun over the 90 dollar one for loosening grip glue, and it works fine
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emery_craig
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18d ago
PSA: I thought soaking old aperture blades in naphtha was a hack, then a Konica Auto S2 changed my mind
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