Hit 500 shutter repairs and the weirdest one was a Canon from 1985

I hit 500 shutter repairs last Tuesday, which I figured would just be another number. But the camera that put me over was this Canon AE-1 Program that got dropped off a dock in Maine. The owner tried to dry it out with a hair dryer and rice for a week before bringing it to me. I spent like 3 hours just scraping corrosion off the magnet switches. It actually fired again after I rebuilt the whole timing assembly. Has anyone else hit a milestone like that and had the job be something totally unexpected?

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riley_west17d agoTop Commenter

Nah, hitting 500 sounds cool but a dried out Canon from a dock isn't that weird.

paigem4517d ago

Makes me think how we romanticize anything that's a little broken.