Travel Memories: Cable Beach Sunset

As you know by now Mr Fix It is a magnet for damaged devices. Computers, pads, chargers, rice cookers, microwaves, jump starts and the topic of today's post, cameras. He was given one a few weeks ago by a very interesting lady, a solo traveller, because it would not save. Not sure what was wrong but he is trying to track her down now to give the working camera back. We really don't need it as we have two good cameras and two phones that take excellent shots.

This is not the first camera K has repaired. The most memorable story goes like this.......



Pearlers of Cable Beach at Sunset

Some time ago before we moved permanently into the caravan  we travelled from Adelaide to Darwin, across to Broome, down to Perth and back across the Nullarbor to Adelaide. One of the cameras we took with us that trip was salvaged.

A couple of months before we embarked on this adventure  K  acquired a digital camera that was producing out of focus pictures. I would have ditched it but this is just the kind of challenge he relished.  (and still does)

So out came the tiny clock repair screw drivers, the solder set and the multimeter and off he went. Like a surgeon he dissected the camera, removing the shell then each of the internals, which he then laid out in a line across the table in order of removal. Every tiny piece stretched from one side of the table to the other.  Dinner was eaten on our laps that week.

He then proceeded to remake one of the small plastic cogs and fit it into the focusing mechanism. After a couple of false starts whereby the bits were joined far enough to test and then removed and re-joined a couple of times,  the line of parts magically reformed into a camera.

The quality of the repair is shown below. Behold a famous Broome Cable Beach sunset captured by Mr Fix It's famous salvaged camera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Not sure where the camera is now.... A good home I hope. 


Cheers Sue

A Ferg on the Move