Rainy Day Little Adventure

[BusyWeb]

Today, here Los Angeles, rain...alot.
It's been long time this much rain here, so I was little exited.
I wanted to ride, need some excuse for in this rain???
Get a movie and some snack/food... ha ha ha.
Ready to go, I tried to mount my new HD camcorder >> dropped and no picuters....
NO PROBLEM, I can use my old water-proof small camera for this adventure.

Here is the video for my rainy day little adventure ..
Rainy_Day_Little_Adventure
[youtube:96r23j6a]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgPWsOqnPMY[/youtube:96r23j6a]


After SUCCESSFUL my adventure, I praised my FZ6 with video.. ha ha ha

Rainy_Day_My_Bike
[youtube:96r23j6a]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1va3tEonf4[/youtube:96r23j6a]

Thanks

[Water Warrior 2]

Busy, you are definitely a rider for all seasons. But please do not ride and hold the camera. I know you were experimenting but it is quite dangerous.

[BusyWeb]

Busy, you are definitely a rider for all seasons. But please do not ride and hold the camera. I know you were experimenting but it is quite dangerous.
Hi, Mr. WW.
I wouldn't do that if my new camcorder wasn't broken...
But after today's adventure, I feel that I can implement some kind of Camera Mounting on the Rider's Body(Jacket)???
I don't know yet, ... just blink of idea on my head.

I like ride in the rain alot; don't know why??; but riding in the rain gave me my old memory of Riding Bycycle In The Rain..
ha ha ha...
But not like riding under cold weather which you might have to encounter every winter time...
Thanks

[JWR]

Hey Busy, I saw you over at ADV.

I have been a member since 2005. TrashCan there,

Welcome

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[BusyWeb]

Hey Busy, I saw you over at ADV.

I have been a member since 2005. TrashCan there,

Welcome


Hi, Mr. JWR.
I'm just a basice member, joined at last year??? don't remember.
And I visit forum when I got bored and need some INSPIRATION for my next riding... ha ha ha.
The members of ADV are really great humans at least with Motorcycle Riding >> I admire them really.
And alot of nice riding information >> sadly most of them for the Dual-Sports or Dirt bike.
So, I consider that I want to have some cheap/used one; like bmw F800GS or F650GS Twin??? >> um, expensive
But no budget for me, need to save $$ >> may be next year or later ha ha ha

O.K. whenever I got ADV, let me check your ID ...

[BusyWeb]

As I don't want to spend $ and time to fix my camera, I tried to fix it myself.
And successed....ha ha ha...
Here are the pictures for repair process.
Problem was aperture motor which was stucked when I dropped camera.

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[JWR]

Damn Busy, Can you send me all the left over parts???

How did you fix that without a hammer?


Good job.

[Moedad]

Busy, is there anything you WON'T try?

[Water Warrior 2]

A faster method would be to just drop it again to get things unstuck. So easy even a caveman could do it. LOL. Seriously though, I do admire your talents and inventiveness.

[BusyWeb]

Damn Busy, Can you send me all the left over parts???
Busy, is there anything you WON'T try?
A faster method would be to just drop it again to get things unstuck. So easy even a caveman could do it. LOL. Seriously though, I do admire your talents and inventiveness.

Hi, there...
After fortunate fix, I felt great.. ha ha ha

1. I tried to re-screw some left overs, but still left couple of them and some metal tensioner???
Didn't figure it out where to put... but seems O.K. so far.
Do you want to have those >> I can send you ha ha ha.

2. I won't try (actually Can't) >> Wheelies, Canyon Leaning, and Off-Roading for a long time...... ha ha ha

3. Yes, I tried to hit the camera on soft part >> didn't worked. (Yes, it sometimes worked for me)
Tried to find Sanyon Digital Camera Service Department in So. CA >> no luck....
I thought that it might take at least month to be fixed >> Yes, try it myself...

Thanks ....

[mrlmd1]

It takes some smarts and a little dexterity, but if you're willing to tackle the job and you take things apart slowly and deliberately and organize the pieces when you do that, most of the time you can figure out what's wrong, and unless something is broken and you don't have a replacement you can fix it and get it working again. Otherwise you can just say screw it, and throw it out after you get it all apart.
Good thing for Busy, he was able to fix it himself, now he can go into the camera repair business too.
Keep those videos coming.

[BusyWeb]

Otherwise you can just say screw it, and throw it out after you get it all apart.

Hi, Mr. MM.
I had one screwed the one old non-waterproof digital camera.
Actually, it wasn't for fixing, but for the Remote-Shutter-Wire extension modification...
Ha ha ha, I remember that I touched the flash capacitor with screw driver.. >> gone forever...

Thanks.

[alanmcorcoran]

I am also impressed. Not sure if I mentioned it on here before but I had a rather pricey DLP 55 inch TV (that was actually a replacement for its very buggy predecessor) that developed a very noisy color wheel. Even though this was after it was less than a year old, Samsung and Best Buy refused to fix it under warranty because it was already a replacement for one I had bought previously that they fixed (for the same problem) five times. During the course of my travails, the original one had sold for $3500, the replacement listed at $2500 and current models, somewhat nicer than mine, were now advertised for about $1150.

As luck would have it, I found detailed instructions on fixing it on the Internet. The repair quotes I'd gotten were in the neighborhood of $400 plus parts and, since the thing had dropped a lot in value, I was reluctant to throw more money into what was likely a deep pit. I ordered the part on line (about $80). First color wheel I got was the wrong size, sent it back and got the right one. Went through all the dissassembly steps, got deep into the bowels of the thing, had to fish out a few lost wayward screws, (also you have to be very careful not to touch or get dust on the color wheel - and the inside of a DLP TV is like a giant dust factory.) I had a real hard time with the actual replacement - a lot of the screws were such that it required four hands to hold the parts tightly together, position the gasket, and then use X-ray vision to align the screw at a blind angle, but, after a good deal of sweaty frustration and re-tries, I got the thing in and reassembled. I was shocked when it actually fired back up without smoke, sparks, fire or outright explosion (I had removed and reassembled damn near everything in there.) It was all good except the colors were all reversed (red was green, etc.)

As luck would have it I found a jumper that reversed them back to the right ones and the TV is still running in the bedroom probably two years on now. (Having little faith in my repair skills I'd already bought a plasma to replace it in the living room.) Probably my finest hour as johnny AV tech, one that I will likely never repeat.