LOL!
Consider it practice for the real job, Sid. It will be easier the second time around. Might even check out the possibility of putting a plug-in connector in this time around. That will guarantee you will never have to do it again (see Murphy's Law).
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Sid Barras wrote:
Hi all, When you totally screw up, it ain't pretty.
I dropped my back up AF 500 FTZ the other day, and the tinkling sound of broken glass told me I'd done the ultimate damage to it. Having dropped the other one a few months back and not broken the glass, but broken something else so that it didn't work either left me in a predicament.
No flash for my MZS or PZ1 or brand new MZ-5n (thanks Joe W)....
So, I had this bright idea-- make one flash that works out of both units! The one I broke the lamp in still zoomed and the LCD lit up, so, why not take the top half from one and the bottom half of the other and combine them into one neat working package and save at least $100 bucks on a repair?
Heck, event the scary number of wires revealed and no convenient plug-in connectors didn't scare me-- I have soldered a thing or two in my time, I've even got one of those "solder-suckers" for removing wires from pc boards. And I've got some of that heat shrink tubing for a professional finish to the job.
So all went well-- 20 or 30 thousand 24 AWG wires don't scare me. Just do 'em one at a time... Even though of that number there were only one different colors, I still sailed on impetuously and confidently.
When I finished, it looked great! It even all packed back in the case nice and easy.
Until I realized I'd just spent the last few hours resoldering the same bottom half to its original top half.
Sigh... I'm gonna look at some flash units on ebay today. Those Sunpaks and Metz units are not bad...
Sid-- with salty tears ruining my handiwork...
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
