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corlandz
07-26-2007, 06:45 PM
Hello to everyone :),

I have found some guides about Canon Camera on the web that I partially use to start in solving my problem but I think You could help me; I have bought an S2 IS via eBay; the seller hasn't indicate me that it was faulty; I gave him a negative feedback, but he has told me that no refund will be done. The issue was passed to eBay, but I am not confident in a positive solution.
After that, I started to repair the camera showsthe infamous E18; it was probably bumped laterally when the zoom was totally extended and one of the 3 slide pins that drive the movement of the same zoom has broken the body, as is shown here: http://psc.110mb.com/S2IS/IMG_0023.JPG and here http://psc.110mb.com/S2IS/IMG_0071.JPG .
Since this pin was not present in the camera, I have built another one with a lathe, fixing it with cyanoacrilic glue in its housing : http://psc.110mb.com/S2IS/IMG_0087.JPG

My problem now is to reassemble the components of the block inside the zoom and the littee springs and washer on the rear, near the CCD, since my brother has managed the parts and doesn't remember how are originally assembled and I have not yet arrived to that point. These are the parts I don't know where they will go for housing : http://psc.110mb.com/S2IS/IMG_0090.JPG
I am a computer technician but I am no able to reassemble what never seen assembled, speaking about camera. For this reason I have taken a lot of picture of the taking a part process; unfortunately, my brother doesn't do the same, so this is the reason why I asking your help. I have also contacted Bower64 that is a sort of wizard about some types of camera, including the S2 IS.

For the rest, I think the damage was repaired, even if I don't know if the electronics works.

I really don't know whom did I contact and the Canon center told me of throwing out the camera; excuse me for my terrible English and also for the quality of the pictures, taken by a bad photographer (me) with my trusty S1 IS.

Cheers and thanks in advance :)

Corrado

David Metsky
07-26-2007, 08:13 PM
We can't see your pictures, permissions problems.

corlandz
07-27-2007, 02:06 AM
We can't see your pictures, permissions problems.
I apologize for this; probably is a security precaution of the site, because if you cut and paste the links on a new browser page, without coming from the forum, they work.

Anyway:
The damage
http://www.pctuner.info/up/results/_200707/th_20070727100155_IMG_0023_1.JPG (http://www.pctuner.info/up/image.php?src=_200707/20070727100155_IMG_0023_1.JPG)

another view of the damage, when the camera was been already disassembled
http://www.pctuner.info/up/results/_200707/th_20070727100126_IMG_0071_1.JPG (http://www.pctuner.info/up/image.php?src=_200707/20070727100126_IMG_0071_1.JPG)

details of the repairing
http://www.pctuner.info/up/results/_200707/th_20070727100232_IMG_0087_1.JPG (http://www.pctuner.info/up/image.php?src=_200707/20070727100232_IMG_0087_1.JPG)

damage repaired (after that I have cleaned the surplus of glue)
http://www.pctuner.info/up/results/_200707/th_20070727100949_IMG_0091_1.JPG (http://www.pctuner.info/up/image.php?src=_200707/20070727100949_IMG_0091_1.JPG)

parts I don't know where they will house in.
http://www.pctuner.info/up/results/_200707/th_20070727100308_IMG_0090_1.JPG (http://www.pctuner.info/up/image.php?src=_200707/20070727100308_IMG_0090_1.JPG)

Many thanks :)

corlandz
07-30-2007, 12:58 AM
Anyone could help me, please?

Many thanks :)

berniej
07-30-2007, 11:40 AM
You might have to take your "spare parts" and camera to a repair shop. I doubt you will find many people except for technicians who have disassembled a camera.

corlandz
07-30-2007, 04:19 PM
You might have to take your "spare parts" and camera to a repair shop. I doubt you will find many people except for technicians who have disassembled a camera.
I have already brought the camera to a repair shop, still before all of the job I have done on it, but the answer of the technician was that it was irreparable; with my obstinacy I have found the fault, showing that it wasn't irreparable. Since that moment I have lost a lot of confidence in technicians.

Bye and thanks anyway :)

David Metsky
07-30-2007, 04:33 PM
What he probably meant was it was not commercially viable to repair. If you were going to pay the service person's time and materials, it would be cheaper to buy a new camera. If you want to do it yourself (which you have) that's a great thing, but it's still not a working camera.

Digital cameras aren't designed to be repaired, so there aren't many guides out there and certainly few people who've done it. Bower is your best bet on this site. Good luck.

-dave-

ale_g
07-31-2007, 10:02 AM
BoweR64 has a dissasembly guide for the S2. I gues it will help you.

B. Regards
Ale_G:)

corlandz
08-02-2007, 08:05 AM
BoweR64 has a dissasembly guide for the S2. I gues it will help you.

B. Regards
Ale_G:)
Yes, I know, but up to now, all my attempts to contact him were unsuccessful :(

David Metsky
08-02-2007, 08:18 AM
Have you looked through this thread (http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22385)?