Share your repair job

I dunno about Landrovers but I did take the engine apart on my Suzuki Alto FX (3 cylinder 800cc engine on a small hatchback) and replaced the cylinder head gasket. I also found that tuning the engine myself usually produced better performance and higher fuel economy than the ghastly garage-style Krypton tuning. That was a car that had a distributor rather than electronic black box ignition.

You name it, I've repaired it - cameras, flashguns, lenses, cars, broken hammers, guns, sewing machines, calculators, computers, laptops etc. Basically anything around the house that goes wrong I fix. My wife laughs but by the time I've done the repair it has taken a lot less time than buying new or hiring somebody to do the job.

I had fixed a jammed shutter on one of my old Minolta X-700's. Got it unjammed and back on track and was able to go at least 100+ rolls of film before I said the heck with this I want a DSLR Now with the tiny electronics on the 5D & 10D I would rather send it to Canon

photobitz wrote in post #2336159
Depending on how much disassembly is required, there's no special tools needed except for a set of small screwdrivers and tweezers/forceps come in handy too. OK, before you attempt that... disassembling that far is a big job and there are lots of places you can stuff up and kill the lens.

That said, with all the metal mount lenses, you generally start by unscrewing the mount, pushing out the plastic end-cap attached to the mount with your fingers (watch not to break the clips), then unscrew the contact plate from the mount.

After that, it depends on the lens, but you usually need to unclip the flexible circuits and remove the PCB. Below will be a number of screws which hold the rest of the lens together. Again, exactly how many and where depends on the lens. I've never tried an 85mm before so I can't help you so much with that.

See if you can find the Canon lens repair guide DVD on e6ay and if you search, there are a number of online shops that actually sell the service manuals for various lenses... I'll see if I can locate one for you...

Thanks Dan, that's about 100% more than I knew before!

I will have a look on fleabay for the DVD and found a site in the US that has the repair manuals for it (for $20) but as I'm doing this on the cheap I might try to muddle my way through (gently of course).

Anything else that you think of would be very gratefully received!

Thanks

Steve

Uh, the biggest thing I ever fixed was a Nintendo Gamecube with gravy stuck in the power button

Camera wise?
Uh...I loaded a film for someone who didn't know how to do it and had jammed their winder?

I had a 300 f4L that had the focus drive fork pop over the trunion on the rear lens group. (Don't ask...) Took about 20 min to fix it.

New shutters in Nikkomats was about 6hrs I think, plus parts finding...

I have a EOS-100 with a gluefull shutter that I have to fit the 80c worth of new bumpers into. That will be about 4-6 hours I guess.

John_B wrote in post #2336260
I had fixed a jammed shutter on one of my old Minolta X-700's. Got it unjammed and back on track and was able to go at least 100+ rolls of film before I said the heck with this I want a DSLR Now with the tiny electronics on the 5D & 10D I would rather send it to Canon

Very good. Well, you would have paid a fair bit for both camera's so that's understandable

rhys wrote in post #2336209
I dunno about Landrovers but I did take the engine apart on my Suzuki Alto FX (3 cylinder 800cc engine on a small hatchback) and replaced the cylinder head gasket. I also found that tuning the engine myself usually produced better performance and higher fuel economy than the ghastly garage-style Krypton tuning. That was a car that had a distributor rather than electronic black box ignition.

You name it, I've repaired it - cameras, flashguns, lenses, cars, broken hammers, guns, sewing machines, calculators, computers, laptops etc. Basically anything around the house that goes wrong I fix. My wife laughs but by the time I've done the repair it has taken a lot less time than buying new or hiring somebody to do the job.

That's great! I do it for a few reasons:

a) Everything that breaks just happens to be a couple of months out of warranty (it's a conspiracy I tell you) so I'd need to pay for repair- and that aint cheap.

b) I'm cheap and I have a lot of other stuff to pay for including too many hobbies.

c) My wife doesn't let me spend much money on camera gear (but what she doesn't know won't hurt her )

d) I like to know how things work and see if I can make them better.

Throlkim wrote in post #2337732
Uh, the biggest thing I ever fixed was a Nintendo Gamecube with gravy stuck in the power button

Camera wise?
Uh...I loaded a film for someone who didn't know how to do it and had jammed their winder?

LOL

prep wrote in post #2338570
I had a 300 f4L that had the focus drive fork pop over the trunion on the rear lens group. (Don't ask...) Took about 20 min to fix it.

New shutters in Nikkomats was about 6hrs I think, plus parts finding...

I have a EOS-100 with a gluefull shutter that I have to fit the 80c worth of new bumpers into. That will be about 4-6 hours I guess.

Wow. Never worked on a big tele like that before. I'm glad it was so easily fixable. Next time don't drop it!

Replacing shutters is a big job. Especially on DSLRs because you have to pull the whole rear of the camera off to get to it. Good luck with the EOS100!