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murray.robert
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3d ago
Pro tip: a tiny screw from a $2 reading glasses kit saved a Kodak Retina I was stuck on for 9 days
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the_robert
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4d ago
Update: I stopped telling customers to toss their old sticky aperture blades
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morgan.jason
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5d ago
Unpopular opinion: a retired tech told me to stop polishing lens contacts with pencil erasers, and I fought him on it for a year
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taylor_patel
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5d ago
Stop telling new folks to clean focus rings with lighter fluid
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young.thomas
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6d ago
Vent: my old mentor swore you must never touch the mirror box on a cheap body, and he was dead wrong
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troychen
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6d ago
Tried cleaning a sticky aperture with lighter fluid and it came back two days later worse
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felixm29
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6d ago
I quit buying cheap rubber cement for leatherette after a Nikon F2 came back to my bench twice in one week
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phoenix_martin40
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6d ago
Just realized the guy at the counter was right about checking the battery door spring first
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abbyp61
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7d ago
TIL cleaning a 50 year old lens with lighter fluid and a Q tip actually worked
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brooke_jones
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8d ago
Warning: I cleaned a focus screen with canned air for 3 years and it was making things worse
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leo_johnson
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9d ago
If you're still using the guess and check method on leaf shutters, you're wasting your customers' time
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phoenix_martin40
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11d ago
Shoutout to the old guy in Tucson who showed me how to fix a stiff focus ring with a hair dryer
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rodriguez.mia
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13d ago
Old timer told me to stop using canned air on sensors, took me 8 years to listen
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drewthompson
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21d ago
Hot take: factory repair manuals are overrated, tear-down videos beat them every time
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mark_green
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23d ago
Took me 4 hours to figure out a stuck shutter magnet on a 1978 Pentax
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