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simon_wood72
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22h ago
Spent 6 hours chasing a light leak that turned out to be a bad seal on a $12 roll of film
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amy692
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2d ago
Warning: a sticky aperture ring on a 35mm lens ate 3 hours of my bench time
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bailey.sam
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2d ago
A customer at my bench in Grand Rapids told me to quit cleaning lens edges with canned air, and I owe her one
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andrew916
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4d ago
Tried cleaning a hazy lens with dish soap and it actually worked better than my $18 cleaning solution
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the_robert
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6d ago
A retired guy in Reno handed me his grandfather's Pentax and said 'just make it work, I don't care what it takes'
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terrymitchell
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7d ago
A guy at the swap meet in Tulsa told me he never replaces light seals, just tells customers to tape the door shut
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ninag10
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7d ago
Shoutout to the old timer who told me to freeze the focus ring on a stuck lens
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matthewp52
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7d ago
TIL the screws holding most filter rings on are reverse threaded, and I snapped one before a guy in Tulsa told me
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thea246
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9d ago
A repair manual from 1974 told me to hit the camera with a wooden spoon
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zara_hunt
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11d ago
Warning: 8 years of brass vs nylon gears in the same lens model, and I finally saw the difference on my bench
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sam_anderson
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12d ago
Stop telling people a CLA will fix a sticky aperture, half the FD lenses I see just need the blades cleaned
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bell.taylor
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12d ago
Vent: a stuck filter ring ate 4 hours of my Saturday and I still feel dumb
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skylerc86
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14d ago
Serious question, hit repair number 500 on my bench and the 500th was a Pentax K1000 with a stuck mirror
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oscar_jenkins31
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15d ago
Just realized my Nikon F2 squeal was the mirror box, not the shutter, after 3 wrong guesses
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linda_clark
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15d ago
Pro tip: I stopped using compressed air on mirrors after a Nikon F3 taught me a $12 lesson
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