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both repairers and restorers have their place... personally, i am a repairer only. i will use a variable resistor to replace a fixed one, i will make a new part where i can to replace a broken one, or AI a Nikkor lens by milling the aperture ring... i'll even reassemble a Leica from parts with non-matching serial numbers (please don't tell anyone, lightning might strike me). i'm more than happy to use original factory parts when i can get them (from a donor camera or otherwise), but in most cases my task has been to get a camera working again, not to restore it to its original factory state. |