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     WernerJB Rating: N/A |
After everything else failed submerging a shutter that has been removed from a camera appears to me as a last straw, if the amateur tinkerer is left alone with just a few photos depicting the mechanism from different angles and the bare words of their liner notes and his own intuition. Watchmakers (by definition people who can make or create watches AND spare parts by the number!) are a chosen few of skilful professional experts who by experience know how to deassemble a complicated mechanism and how to put things back together again, and, if in doubt, can rely on libraries of information. Things are different in the case of average tinkerers, they rely on no advice or that of nonprofessionals. Many of them - like me - enjoy tinkering because they appreciate the different aspects of camera repair usually not considering how long it takes, without reliable sources for spare parts. They like communicating with others, improvising, using selfmade or makeshift tools etc. Above all they like the feeling of finally having made it, although "repairmen" had said the camera was beyond repair ! If all this is pejoratively called "dodger's technique": so what ? Since when do amateur tinkerers have to strive for perfectionism ? |