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brooke_taylor44
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1d ago
Wasted $85 on a 'repair kit' from a big box store and it had four useful parts
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scott.olivia
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2d ago
Ruined a customer's Pentax spotmatic repair when my tweezers slipped, learned a trick to catch it early
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abby_cooper
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3d ago
My mentor said to stop chasing every broken shutter, and I finally get what he meant
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brookeellis
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3d ago
Pro tip: a stripped tripod socket turned into a 4 hour detour on a client's Nikon F3
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adams.vera
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3d ago
Found out my local shop gets 40 repair tickets a week and only 2 of us can do lens work
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jason_stone59
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4d ago
A retired tech in Fort Worth told me to stop buying brand name capacitors, and I hate that he was right
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tessa_adams3
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6d ago
Old timer at the shop told me to stop soaking focus rings in alcohol, and my shelf of dead lenses proves he was right
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shanew59
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6d ago
TIL a $6 bottle of naphtha beat the $40 ultrasonic cleaner on my Canonet shutter
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rodriguez.mia
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7d ago
Can we talk about the Canon AE-1 self timer that ate a customer's shutter and cost me $85
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wren230
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9d ago
Serious question, did I waste 4 months refusing to touch mirrorless shutters?
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wader71
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9d ago
Spent $140 on a Hakko FX-888D after my $25 iron cooked a flex cable on a client's A7, and I've never felt so stupid and so saved at the same time
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cole_murphy
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10d ago
Guy at my shop in Phoenix said to stop dunking shutter assemblies in the ultrasonic, and he was right
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jenny_lane12
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10d ago
Guy at the counter in Boise said he fixes 9 out of 10 cameras without opening them, and I brushed him off until I counted my own bench
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richard_young80
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10d ago
Vent: I thought flat top screws on lens mounts were the devil, then a guy in Toledo told me about JIS
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taylor957
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10d ago
The old repair guy in Phoenix who showed me the trick with a drop of oil on the shutter blades
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