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From: Samuel Morales <dolphans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 7:40 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: a camera emersed in salt water is gone it will never work
accurately
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dirk Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [OM] OM4T that took a salt bath - update
>
>A camera emersed in salt water is history. The mere fact that it fires is
a
>miracle. I would sell it on ebay and perhaps you can get $200.00 for it ,
>take the money and buy a mint to excellent for around $600.00.
>
>There are thousand of parts inside and it would be tuff to find a
legitamate
>camera repair outfit that would stand behind the repair because they would
>know the camera would not operate reliablly over time. That is why
Olympus
>puts an Angel in the instuction manual explaining the do's and don'ts of
>camera's , in reference to exposure to water , etc , etc.
>
>
>>On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Chip Stratton wrote:
>>>
>>> I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to take the
>>> top and/or botton plate off for some judicious
>>> application of electrical grade silicone to electrical
>>> parts that appear to be at risk for continued
>>> corrosion, but lack a guide to doing this for the
>>> OM4t. Perhaps another outfit would do this for me,
>>> with no guarantees of course.
>>>
>>
>>The silicone would be worse than the water dunk. That stuff tends to get
>>everywhere. If all the salt water was rinsed off, then there should be no
>>further corrosion problems. I'm talking in generalites, since I've never
>>repaired cameras. But, I would think that the most important thing would
>>be to make sure all the salt is removed, which I assume would require
>>complete dissasembly and cleaning. You could call Olympus for advice.
>>
>>Be Seeing You.
>>
>>Dirk Wright
>>
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