Here, a refresher quote from:
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Well, I have to confess that at the time it had seemed proper to fling the remnants of that poor camera to the winds and the weeds of the Valdosta abandoned cul-de-sac worksite 8 miles north of the Valdosta steering box rebuild field. Flung too was the memory card and a loyal little battery. I have been feeling wretched in some corner of my mind ever since. It lacked reverence. So I returned to the Valdosta abandoned cul-de-sac worksite yesterday and I gathered up as many pieces of that poor camera as I could find.Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:09 am
My unexpectedly beloved Kodak EZ Share camera, whose efforts were behind every single photograph and video I have taken since 2006, has died. It went into a seizure yesterday, could not focus, and struggled to set the lens with a tic that would not stop twitching . . . I hammered it with my 12# sledge a few times to see if I could discover what was wrong with it. And I did. Like an aircraft accident investigator, I had to distinguish between the impact of the hammer and the chronic wear-out of whatever screwed up the aperture/zoom.
Aircraft Accident Investigations Sleuthing 201 - The Debris Field:
Found the memory card under a pile of leaves trapped by a wicked vine thicket:
Here is the plastic "zoom cylinder". It has straight gouges from the impact of the sledge, but you can see the diagonal gouge that finally kerfluffled the electronics:
I am a terrible and violent camera repairman:
This "new" camera-same-as-the-old-camera seemed to take very alert nervous pictures. I would too, if I had to photograph that carnage. I took a picture of the printed circuit board upon which is the "menu" button. You see, this "new" camera does not give me access to the menu. I might need to fix it real good, too . . .
(see the button labels on the board "left" "right" "up" "down" got it, but OK is titled "do-it":
I put all the shattered parts of my old camera in a WalMart bag. From it, I shall glean how to access the menu button/board without a sledge hammer. Gawd, I will have to, like, use a screwdriver and stuff . . .
ANYWAYS, the memory card did indeed have stored memories of my trip from Florida to Georgia on January Twenty Something through January Twenty Something other. I did touch up both bumpers:
. . . and put plastic caps over the bolts just like the BobD:
Rebuilt both sliding door latch mechanisms, this, the last picture my Kodak Easy Share z612 took:
I attempted to rebuild the original fuel pump, after giving it and the pump currently on the car, a careful live test/cleaning with two buckets of gasoline, two wires from the battery, and sparks aplenty when testing the terminally stalled original pump:
Here is the original pump just coming apart, beautiful fresh brushes and commutator:
The armature was welded to the housing with varnish, "locked rotor" was never so locked as this:
Then it got too cold, so Whinebaby Fuel Pump Rebuilder gave it up, threw it in a stinky plastic bag and chucked it into the engine compartment's left battery tray area where it sits until I have the time and the temps to hopefully save it. Not two hours after I gave this job up, the car went wonky as mentioned in the above link to the Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up thread.
I will give you an update on this trip back down to Florida tomorrow, replete with pictures of Jesus Christ Himself in the midst of tanks and guns. I know, I AM in Florida now.
Colin