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jordan903
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22h ago
Vent: A sticky aperture ring on a Canonet took me 11 days to fix and it was one screw the entire time
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elliot_barnes
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8d ago
Old repair guy in Cleveland told me back in '09 to never toss a customer's old batteries, turns out he was right
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paul286
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8d ago
Tore down a Nikon F2 at my kitchen table in Boise, found a dead moth behind the mirror box
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wells.karen
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9d ago
Pro tip: that 'always replace the light seals' advice cost me a customer
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henderson.oscar
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12d ago
Guy at the parts counter told me my shutter timing was off because I wasn't cleaning the curtain rails, not the gears
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joseph_ellis85
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12d ago
Gave up on my $90 Hakko desoldering gun and went back to a $4 bulb, and I'm not going back
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cora863
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17d ago
Question about the JIS driver tip everyone strips on old Nikons
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richard_west68
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17d ago
Dropped $400 on a Hakko soldering station in 2009 and it outlasted three shops
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webb.ben
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18d ago
Found out a Nikon F2 service manual says the shutter has a 1/80 sec flash sync that most people never use
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gibson.sarah
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20d ago
Guy at the Columbus camera show handed me back my own repair tag and asked why I wrote shutter speeds in pencil
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scott.drew
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20d ago
Stopped by the camera shop on 8th in Wichita and saw a repair bench setup that made me rethink my parts trays
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jake638
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21d ago
Rant: spent 3 hours on a Nikon F3 last week that a shop in Denver 'fixed' two years ago
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elliot_johnson31
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23d ago
Warning: I stopped replacing foam light seals and started using black yarn on a customer's Nikon FM
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rileyb61
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24d ago
Dropped $260 on a Hakko FX-888D after my old iron cooked a shutter blade
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rowanharris
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24d ago
Guy at the repair bench next to mine said he just swaps shutter units instead of cleaning them, and that's been eating at me
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