Replacing parts! Pentax A40 digicam screen.

I decided at some point to give a shot at replacing the screen on this Pentax A40 pocket digicam.  It turned out to be rather straightforward.


That sort of explains it.

This is the guy I got the screen from.
http://stores.ebay.com/dhcameras

Some of the screens are significantly more expensive than others, but it's certainly worth trying, just for the experience, and if your camera was broken in the first place, you don't have much to lose anyway!

home made tools.

I made a temporary spanner wrench out of a crappy pair of pliers today.

Looks like this.

A long time ago, my dad was showing me how to tooth in a file, and let the little ledge hold the file in place as you file away material only where it needs to be removed ... or something like that.  I had the pliers clamped in a vice, and was buzzing away at the material until the tips were exactly the correct thickness for the early Konica rangefinder lens I was working on recently.  http://photocontraptions.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-of-can-film-konicas.html  This camera is so cool, not having my wrenches was no excuse to delay.  Well, it worked surprisingly nicely.  Nice enough for me to think about not ordering another wildly expensive wrench.

It's so easy, I feel kinda stupid for not having done this last time.