Water Damage to Exposure Meter
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Re: Water Damage to Exposure Meter
jamesm007 wrote:
GPGeneralPhoto wrote:
I believe that your camera was not sealed properly during the repair. Having taken Pentax DSLRs apart for repair, I noted that the seals are small and seem to be greased and are very difficult to reinstall correctly. I can see that it would be easy to get a misalignment of the seals. Getting the repair center to admit this seems a long shot, though you could ask. I used a K-5IIs through a tour of Niagra falls and despite being soaked in the mist, the camera performed, and continues to perform as intended by Pentax.
There is no grease on the seals. The sealing is industry standard foam, silicone and rubber. The tech does not have to align many seals as most are part of the body and structure. Sealing is not a science in the works. Its a well known art if you don't take short cuts. Pentax IMO takes no shortcuts sealing bodies. I have never seen any leaking trend in almost ten years of tracking and sometimes reading in depth this forum. Just do a deep search on each forum to prove to yourself overtime which have done well or not.
I worked on a K200D, maybe newer models use different seals, but I remember the greasy seals in the K200D. You can see dust that has stuck to the seal in the pic.

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