jeff_green2

<p>If anyone runs across this again, I just finished this repair. I've dismantled a bunch of cameras and lenses before for cleaning, restoring and fixing so this was quite easy. If you haven't, just make sure you have the right tools and go slow. Put all of your screws in separate containers for each step so you don't get them confused, take pictures while you dismantle if you have to.</p> <p>For this repair, follow <a href="/photodb/user?user_id=590273">Gui Maranhao</a>'s post above. A couple other things: The right rear screw on the flash shoe is longer than the others. When you get the screws out, the trick to removing the top is to go SLOW and make sure you have the excess flash wires pulled out, The are folded and shoved down next to the flash. This allows some slack to let you pull up. If you don't do this, you will be yanking on the soldered contacts on the main board.<br> When the top is off, watch out for the AF and +/- buttons as they aren't really attached to anything and they will likely fall out/apart. Just make sure when you are done to get them lined up carefully with the top holes and you should be able to get the top back on over them.<br> I cleaned under the command wheel with a blast of electrical contact cleaner /lubricant. I shot from the front side under the wheel, then worked a coffee filter (no fiber residue) under the wheel and spun it around many times to really scrub the contacts. After this, I gave a couple blasts with an air compressor to get any fluid out which was great, but it did spray some on the underside of the LCD window. I just cleaned it with alcohol and Q-tips and all was good. Reassembled and everything works as new. AWESOME fix for an awesome camera. I bought mine as 'parts, as-is' for $99. Because of the intermittent nature of the contact issue, people will assume it's an electrical circuit problem.<br> Last tip: Before you open up the camera, find one place where the issue manifests itself regularly. For me I used the 'data / date / day' adjustment going from 1-31, because it was definitely flakey and jumping around. After you clean it, slide the top on, turn the camera on and go to wherever you decided and try cycling the wheel through the range. Then you have a decent test to make sure it worked before you button it all back up again.<br> good luck!</p>