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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
He runs a small shop off State Street and when I brought in a shutter that was sticking, he just sat there dry firing it for two minutes and handed it back working. I kind of laughed, but then I went home and looked at my ticket log for March, and out of 47 jobs, 11 of them were fixed by a battery pull, a firmware reset, or just reseating the lens contacts. Cost of parts on those 11 was basically nothing, but I had spent hours tearing down bodies that never needed to come apart. So now I time myself on diagnostics before the screwdriver comes out, and it's cut my turnaround from 9 days to 5. Anyone else keep a rough number on how many repairs turn out to be nothing but a reset or a contact clean?
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cole_murphy3d ago
cut my turnaround from 9 to 5" seems like a stretch for that.
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