On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Scott Loveless <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > Pentax's official distributor isn't going to use cannibalized parts to > fix a 30 year old camera.
Of course not! They have enough problems (it seems) fixing current cameras. >Once the new parts are gone it's a done > deal. So 3rd party it is. I've been tempted to start buying MXen in > bulk and creating my own parts stash. With most of the knowledgeable > repairmen getting up there in years and/or retiring, it might not be a > bad idea to learn to repair one or two models yourself. I've got three Spotmatics, only one of which works really well. The others are parts bodies, should I ever need them as such. I have to admit that the situations for Spotties is different, as there are some K1000 parts that fit Spots, so between all the K1000s and Spots ever made, there is the potential of a gazillion parts bodies out there. > Eric Hendrickson has a very good reputation for Spotmatics and manual > K-mount cameras. http://pentaxs.com/ If you have to ship it, Derby, > ship it to someone you know. Have them take it in for repair, test it > out afterward, and then send it back to you once it's working > properly. The go-to guy in Toronto is Komineks: http://www.kominek.com/ I've such their praises on this list before. They have a "stable" of repair techs that they farm their work out to, including guys who used to work for Pentax Canada and Leica Canada. They love it when one brings in mechanical cameras. "Can't repair those electronic pieces of crap. It's always a motor that goes. Do you know how much those things cost to buy and install? Might as well buy a new camera..." cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
