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| Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2025 17:29 |
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chrisbet
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Was hunting for an affordable D850 to fix up but even ones with top and front casings smashed were going for best part of £500! But I have just picked up a D810 for £200 - has had the lens mount snapped off but enough of the mirror box front face remains to get a replacement spring and mount correctly aligned. The camera has arrived so I just wait for the spares to turn up. I have black structural methylacrylate glue which will reconstruct the missing parts and secure the mount screws in their holes. If that doesn't work out then I can get a replacement box and have the fun of swapping it all over - full dismantle - I will try and avoid that if I can  Testing with a spare battery shows everything else is OK and it has a 73k shutter count.  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2025 17:32 |
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jk
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Hope you can get it back together and working well. Problem is the more pixels the more finicky the set up is. I still have my D810 as backup for my D850 as I got rid of my D600 when I got my Z9.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2025 03:38 |
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novicius
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What happened,do you know ?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2025 08:48 |
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chrisbet
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No, I don't know what happened but the damage indicates that the lens was pulled off in an upward direction - the bottom mount screw hole is intact, the two either side are broken halfway down and the top two are completely missing. There is no damage to the outside of the camera so either it fell on the lens or something fell on it. Either way, all the electronics work and once I get the mount reattached I'll see if the lens communicates with the camera OK. Fortunately Nikon made the box with 8mm deep screw holes for a 6mm screw and the mount is another 1 - 2 mm, so the plan is to use 8mm M2 replacement screws which means, at least for the bottom screws they will screw into unbroken plastic for some of the length. The methylacrylate glue is 2 part and incredibly strong - I use it to glue broken plastic car bumpers back together!
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