Please don't try this at home

I almost fell off my chair when I saw the first photo and the initial narrative. However, the whole story is a great advertisement for Colchester Camera Repair Centres.

Dave
 
Great link & well done Colchester cameras :thumbs:

Steve
 
I've had some training and experience repairing electromechanical equipment, but think I'd draw the line at tackling that. Props to them for putting it back together.
 
will they give me a job - I can wire a plug :)
 
I've rebuilt a few lenses, most have worked again afterwards! Nothing as complicated as a stabilised AF zoom though.
 
When I worked in computers I often received things in bits, you have to have a little sympathy for all involved :D
 
After I'd had my first PC for 3 weeks I decided I wanted to see how it went together so I took it completely to pieces and layed it out on the bed. I then set about putting it back together and once all completed I plugged it back in and booted it up and had no problems. I've since built dozens of PC's for myself and many others and have only had 1 or 2 minor problems that I've easily fixed. Would I ever decide to take my 24-105 f4L to pieces after 3 weeks (or a year and a half)? Errr. NOT A CHANCE. I think that's going 'A Bridge too Far' even for a puzzle nut.

All credit to Colchester Camera Repairs, but I bet it cost a bit more than the basic fixed price repair job.
 
Oh that's a bit scary. I'd say I'm quite practical and handy at fixing things but there is no way I'd dare dismantle that. Ahhh!!!
 
Tunbridge said:
Oh that's a bit scary. I'd say I'm quite practical and handy at fixing things but there is no way I'd dare dismantle that. Ahhh!!!
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I'd happily dismantle it as I always loved taking things :lol: apart but ------------- how would I get it back together :gag:
 
I am probably daft enough to start taking it apart but I think I'd get half way through and loose my bottle. Maybe at the half way stage it wouldn't be passed the point of no return?
 
I once took a lens apart... Wasn't quite as successful though.

 
That's what I'd call terminally stupid.
First rule of dismantling *anything* is to immediately back off and put it back together again if you're running into difficulties.

I wouldn't even think of trying it with an L-Series lens either; The only thing nearly as complicated as that I've tried was a broken mobile phone, which had squat all value. A L-Series lens will still fetch good money broken, but not in bits :P
 
I've had several Canon lenses apart and they're really not that bad!
Once you've done a couple they become a doddle, you just have to work methodically and arrange parts in order as you disassemble and make sure you don't lose anything!!
I have a small plastic parts box so put screws and rollers in different numbered compartments as I remove them and arrange the bigger parts according to those numbered compartments.
I reckon I could easily have a 17-85 looking like that and fully rebuilt and working within an hour.
Having said that, I wouldn't really want to reassemble one that someone else had disassembled. ;)
I recently almost bought a 24-105 with a broken flex cable to repair and keep but with what the seller was asking plus the cost of the new aperture unit I worked out it just wasn't worth it.
 
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