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Courtneydawg
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Username: Courtneydawg
Post Number: 1
Registered: 03-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 05:12 am: | 
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I broke my camera part a couple weeks ago so I decided to superglue it back together. All goes well untill I try to take a picture and the shutter button wont work. I think I might have superglued it down. Does anybody have any responses on this such as has this happened to you before? Anything, I just need to know how to fix it! Thank you. (: |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 236
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 10:20 am: |
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Superglue is water-soluble - just about, and with patience! If you can find a way of soaking the affected area without getting water into anything else (carefully applying it with a cotton bud, assuming you can get to where it's stuck?), you may eventually be able to get it apart again.
Superglue is a bad thing to use in cameras - it outgases as it sets, and the products can do hideous things to plastics.
I'm not sure how helpful that is, but it's the best I can offer... |
Waaaaste
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Username: Waaaaste
Post Number: 15
Registered: 04-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 03:41 pm: |
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If I may ask, what camera exactly did you glue together? |
Bossman
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Username: Bossman
Post Number: 40
Registered: 02-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 10:15 am: |
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If superglue is water-soluble, then AIG deserves another bailout!! I have never found ANYTHING effective dissovling super-glue (even their own solvent). Also be careful putting water into a camera to soak something....bad idea. As Waaaaste (why so many a's) stated: "What part?" |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 239
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 04:18 pm: |
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Well, having gone back and checked you appear to be right - I can only assume that I read it in the context of shifting the stuff from skin, where water will eventually soften the epidermis enough to remove it.
Mind you, the most easily available solvent that WILL shift it isn't a lot safer in your camera - the dreaded acetone!
Consider me educated by this thread... |
