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Re: Requires body disassembling.
Distinctly Average wrote:
Photato wrote:
Sad to find out the R10 battery door can't be easily replaced.
While 1 eBay vendor sells the OEM part, to install it, it requires the removal of the frontal/bottom plate plus the rubber cover. Good luck gluing that back in place like it originally was.
This really sucks since there are other cameras with battery door designs which are easy to remove, or easier to replace when it breaks.
Where did you find out that the door was hard to replace?
I don’t own an R10, so checked online first. It looked easy and even Walmart sell the door. Then I saw this post suggesting it is complicated. So I asked an R10 owning friend to take a look at his and he said it looks very easy to take off.
Walmart - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Canon-Battery-Door-Cover-LID-for-EOS-R10-Mirrorless-Camera-CG2-7393-Part-USA-NEW/1462704033
Your door hasn’t broken, nor has anyone complained about it on here yet. Hopefully we don’t see any.
Where did I find out?
By myself, but for confirmation I asked my brother who is a mechanical engineer and works for Jabil , fixing all kinds electronic and mechanical issues. He has fixed my two crashed drones before, so I trust him.
He took a look at the hinge mechanism under the microscope and couldn't figure out how to replace the battery door without disassembling the body.
Confirming my suspicions.
But many R10 owners without that level of expertise would tell you the same thing after taking a close look at the door hinge mechanism.
Sure, my R10 battery door might not be broken now but it could in the future. If I knew this before buying the R10, it might have changed my decision. The R7 has a user replaceable door.
I don't know about you, but when I buy costly items, user reparability is an important factor to me and to many others planning to keep these devices long term, if desired.
Battery doors do break, just search Youtube to see hundreds of videos on the subject or the availability of these parts as evidence.
Since you don't own a R10, here are two shots I took of the R10 battery hinge.
If you can figure this out, I'll give you $100 Deal ?


