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That old repair shop in Akron where I learned to check the shutter curtain first
I was up at Dave's Camera Repair in Akron about 10 years ago, helping him clear out some old parts. He showed me a box of cameras that people had sent in for CLA work, all with the same issue - someone had greased the shutter mechanism like it was a car engine. Dave told me that's the #1 mistake newbies make, thinking oil fixes everything. Has anyone else run into cameras where the previous repair person just dumped lubricant everywhere?
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tylerw921d ago
Does Dave still keep that box around as a warning to newcomers? I once bought a used Nikon F2 that felt like it had been dunked in a can of WD-40, the shutter sounded more like a wet sneeze than a click. Learned the hard way that too much lube on a camera is just a sticky, slow-motion disaster waiting to happen.
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WD-40's not a lubricant. It's a solvent. Dries out and gums up worse than nothing.
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