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The week I fixed 11 cameras in 3 days and found the same hidden screw problem on 4 of them
Last week was wild, I had a rush order from a local studio in Denver and knocked out 11 bodies in 3 days, which never happens for me. Turns out 4 of them had the same issue, a stripped screw under the base plate that a previous tech had overtightened, and I only caught it because I started checking torque with a tiny driver gauge I got for $12. Has anyone else run into a whole batch from the same shop with the same bad repair habit?
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tessaperry16d ago
That $12 torque gauge saving you on 4 out of 11 bodies is the part nobody talks about, because most shops just blame the last tech and move on. The real story here is why one shop sent you 11 bodies in 3 days, that's a studio that either has no in house tech or just fired one, and both of those mean a bunch of their other gear is probably sitting in the same shape. A bad repair habit doesn't stay on 4 cameras, it's a pattern that follows whoever touched them last, so the stripped screws are just the ones you can see. If you can figure out which tech did the work, that tells you what else to check before it shows up as a dead camera in six months. The gauge paid for itself, but the batch itself is the real clue.
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