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Started Jul 14, 2017 | Discussions thread
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jamesm007 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,820
Re: Seals are dry...

A seal collecting dust is not greasy. There has never been grease applied for weather sealing on any Pentax dSLR camera. I own the K200D brother the K20D. The build concept is the same with both.

I think we might be using the word for different meanings. Grease on a body seal, really any seal would push out the joint and cause a mess. It would collect tremendous amounts of debri. And just isn't needed in non moving parts in a camera. The only place there is grease in Pentax Digital SLRs is the Mirror Box assembly and its gears. Usually small amounts on gears here and there. There is also a very small dab in the edials. Not for weather sealing. But on the little clicking ball bearing to help keep it smooth through the years.

I can believe a seal being sticky, but just sticky not greasy.

Here is a small collection of Pentax service manuals to enjoy. The password is also with the downloads (8639).

http://www.pentax-hack.info/documents/downloads.html

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