Figured I should post something with actual Pentax-related
content for a change...
I just took apart a broken AF280T so I could transplant the
battery door onto a working one that I'd been holding shut
with rubber bands. First I had to make a screwdriver. (Uh,
well, I didn't have a screwdriver small enough, nor a car I
could drive to the hardware store, but I did have some steel
rod, a Dremmel tool, and safety goggles, so I carved myself
a teeny tiny screwdriver.) Then I had to figure out why
removing all the screws I could find wasn't enough to make
it open. (There are two spring-tab thingies in the bottom
edge of the back part of the shell.)
Heh. No time like after putting the working unit back together
and being about to put the batteries in it to notice that
I had a spring left over. Whoopsie! But I did manage to
accomplish the transplant. Figured I'd take the broken unit
apart even further to see whether its problem was something
obvious like a failed solder joint, but I haven't spotted
anything like that yet, and I've found a part that I can't
identifty (which was probably what was rattling inside,
before). And I don't want to take a working one apart all
the way to figure out where the extra part goes, 'cause
it's not exactly easy to reassemble. (Okay, it would probably
be _very_ easy to assemble in a zero-G environment, with
three hands the size of a child's instead of two adult hands.)
But it is kind of interesting how they squeeze all the
electronics around the battery compartment like that.
Wheee!
-- Glenn
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