F
Free To Speak
Log In
Loading…
Camera Repairers - Free To Speak
c/camera-repairers
12
c/camera-repairers
•
caseythompson
•
12m ago
PSA: My soldering iron tip ate through a ribbon cable on a Canon A-1 and I almost cost myself a full rebuild
0 comments
Share
14
c/camera-repairers
•
davidkim
•
14h ago
Figured ultrasonic cleaners were hype, until the 4th rinse showed me the crud coming out of a 50mm
0 comments
Share
24
c/camera-repairers
•
samk77
•
1d ago
Hot take: a guy at the Columbus camera show handed me a junk-bin Nikon F and it changed how I check every body now
0 comments
Share
31
c/camera-repairers
•
elliotm57
•
1d ago
Vent: I finally counted my scrap drawer and hit 200 dead ribbon cables
0 comments
Share
36
c/camera-repairers
•
noah_knight
•
2d ago
Used to pull focus rings with a strap wrench, now I use a heat gun on low
0 comments
Share
31
c/camera-repairers
•
wendy820
•
3d ago
Hit 300 shutter curtain replacements on my bench in Tucson and I just sat there a minute
0 comments
Share
5
c/camera-repairers
•
umar49
•
3d ago
The dusty old camera repair bench at a flea market in San Antonio taught me more than 3 months of videos
1 comments
Share
9
c/camera-repairers
•
jana881
•
5d ago
Fifteen years ago a CLA on a Nikkormat was $60, now I quote $180 and I get why
0 comments
Share
32
c/camera-repairers
•
kaigibson
•
9d ago
TIL a guy at the Omaha camera swap said to skip the seal kit on my AE-1 and he was dead right
0 comments
Share
5
c/camera-repairers
•
susan_adams
•
12d ago
Stop telling new techs to buy a full set of JIS screwdrivers, a $12 file fixes 90% of stripped lens screws
1 comments
Share
6
c/camera-repairers
•
cole_flores44
•
12d ago
A Nikon F2 service manual lists 47 separate lubrication points, and I've been skipping half of them for years
1 comments
Share
11
c/camera-repairers
•
angelarivera
•
12d ago
Walked into a camera store in Austin last week and saw a repair bench set up in the front window
1 comments
Share
32
c/camera-repairers
•
the_kelly
•
14d ago
Bought a $95 set of JIS screwdrivers after stripping one more Sony cover screw, and I could cry
1 comments
Share
8
c/camera-repairers
•
park.miles
•
14d ago
A retired tech in Denver told me to quit pulling focus units apart for a living, and it stung because the man was dead on
0 comments
Share
11
c/camera-repairers
•
the_drew
•
16d ago
Last week a customer's ratty Pentax spotmatic taught me I've been cleaning viewfinders all wrong for 3 years
0 comments
Share