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R10 cheap battery door.

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Photato
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Re: Requires body disassembling.

Distinctly Average wrote:

Photato wrote:

cnyphotoguy wrote:

Photato wrote:

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 ?

From those shots, looks like the same procedure as a 40D Canon EOS 40D Battery Door Replacement - iFixit Repair Guide

Unfortunately, not.

If you take a closer look at the 40D body hinge it has a gap in one end that allows you to snap-insert one door pin. This is a good design Canon could have used in the R10. I looked for it, but these not the same.

I suppose Canon do this deliberately, as in other aspects, to push professionals towards the higher end models, a standard marketing practice, but not as an honest cost cutting measure or bad design.

It is what it is.
The R10 battery door is hard to replace or remove, only for repairs, period.

Hard to tell without one in my hand. Looks like slots rather than just holes for the hinge pins. I would guess pushing the switch down and twisting the door may do the trick but would need one in hand to be sure. I’ve dismantled quite a few cameras in my time so for me it is probably less of a challenge than for many.

Trust me. It is the simplest pin and hole system. Unibody, plastic door-pins.

To remove or insert the door, the R10 bottom plate and the glued-in rubberized surface has to be removed thus opening one of the pin holes.

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