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Unpopular opinion: The surge in instant camera use has me adjusting my toolkit
I now keep a small ultrasonic cleaner handy for those sticky shutter mechanisms. It handles the grime from disposable cameras way better than old methods.
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jake_wells127mo ago
Found an old disposable camera in my dad's attic covered in thick dust. Tried to clean the shutter with a small screwdriver but the plastic cracked straight away. Brianfoster, you are right about just binning them, but I had to take it apart anyway. The grime inside was like glue and ruined any chance of fixing it. Now I have a broken camera and a messy workbench to deal with. This whole thing made me see why some stuff is better left alone.
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emma_rodriguez306mo ago
Oh man, that's the universe telling you to stop. You fought the sticky attic glue and the glue won. At least you got a cool story and a bench that looks like a crime scene now. Some projects are just lessons wrapped in plastic dust.
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brianfoster7mo ago
Wait, you're actually cleaning disposable cameras? I thought the whole point was you use them once and throw the whole thing in the bin. Are people really opening those things up?
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