2wenty
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Hey guys,
Looking for someone that works or has worked on Contax T2's, or if you know someone can you refer me to them.
I have a T2 that the flash wasn't working on. I bought a new NOS flash and put it in yesterday. Once I had the flash in I put the battery in and tested it before putting it back together and it worked, everything was fine.
Once I put the body work back on something was wrong. The lens wouldnt extend. Its like the lens was out of sync with the on/off wheel.
There was a lot of sand in the camera (I bought it cheap because it was abused). I took the sub and main circuit boards apart at the bottom to free up the front cover. I cleared all the sand out of the gears on the front and put it back. Same thing, the lens wasn't extending correctly. Took it apart again to see if maybe there was something up with the top gear with magnet was not engaging.
At this point the main and sub connections were fried, too much soldering. I made like 8 trace jumps (prob harder than doing surgery) with no microscope, took about 5-6 hours, got it to come on and still the same problem. Some of the trace jumps broke from messing with it too much and the camera is junk now.
I really want to find out what the problem could have been. I dont want the camera to die for no reason. At least if I can learn the lesson here of what went wrong Ill be okay with it.
If anything Ill look for a junk T2 and merge the parts into a working camera again. Id just like to figure out what that was incase I put new main and sub boards back in and its the same thing all over again.
Also if anyone has a repair manual can you please help me out.
Super bummed. Should of just left the camera with the burned out flash.
Thanks
Looking for someone that works or has worked on Contax T2's, or if you know someone can you refer me to them.
I have a T2 that the flash wasn't working on. I bought a new NOS flash and put it in yesterday. Once I had the flash in I put the battery in and tested it before putting it back together and it worked, everything was fine.
Once I put the body work back on something was wrong. The lens wouldnt extend. Its like the lens was out of sync with the on/off wheel.
There was a lot of sand in the camera (I bought it cheap because it was abused). I took the sub and main circuit boards apart at the bottom to free up the front cover. I cleared all the sand out of the gears on the front and put it back. Same thing, the lens wasn't extending correctly. Took it apart again to see if maybe there was something up with the top gear with magnet was not engaging.
At this point the main and sub connections were fried, too much soldering. I made like 8 trace jumps (prob harder than doing surgery) with no microscope, took about 5-6 hours, got it to come on and still the same problem. Some of the trace jumps broke from messing with it too much and the camera is junk now.
I really want to find out what the problem could have been. I dont want the camera to die for no reason. At least if I can learn the lesson here of what went wrong Ill be okay with it.
If anything Ill look for a junk T2 and merge the parts into a working camera again. Id just like to figure out what that was incase I put new main and sub boards back in and its the same thing all over again.
Also if anyone has a repair manual can you please help me out.
Super bummed. Should of just left the camera with the burned out flash.
Thanks