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That moment I dropped a shutter curtain spring into a Leica M3
Happened Tuesday, spent 45 minutes with a magnet wand and a headlamp crawling under my bench. Finally found it curled up inside an old lens cap a foot away. You ever lose a part in a way that made you question your whole career path?
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phoenix_singh257d ago
Young.thomas nailed it with that "adventure" line - those springs have got a real talent for timing their jailbreak right when your patience meter is already blinking empty. It's like the universe conspires to test you with the smallest, most fiddly things when you're already running on fumes. I've noticed that pattern everywhere, from a lost screw deciding to hide in the carpet's dark fibers to the car key vanishing the morning you're already late. Makes you wonder if life has a secret committee that meets to plan these little moments of chaos.
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ray_sullivan7d ago
Nah, you're making it sound like some grand cosmic prank. It's just a spring that popped out and landed somewhere annoying. Happens to everyone who works with their hands. Find it, move on, don't overthink it. Did you at least get it back in the camera okay?
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young.thomas7d ago
Funny how those tiny springs are always trying to go on an adventure, like they've got a mind of their own. It's part of that bigger pattern where the most frustrating small things always seem to happen at the worst possible time, right when you're already running low on patience.
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