Went to a camera swap meet in Cleveland and saw a guy selling a 'CLA'd' Nikon F2 with grease still oozing out of the shutter

I pointed it out to him and he said 'that's normal, it just needs to settle.' No buddy, that's too much lubricant in the wrong spot (and it was dripping onto the mirror box). Has anyone else run into sellers passing off sloppy work as professional?

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jade_butler1mo ago

Oh, so now we're calling a shutter drenched in grease "settling" instead of a full-on oil spill? That's like saying a leaky faucet just needs to "settle down" and stop dripping on your floor. I bet @king.ruby would've loved to see that guy's face when he tried to explain physics at a camera meet. Honestly, if that Nikon F2 had been a car, it would've failed inspection for leaving a trail of goo on the pavement.

king.ruby1mo ago

yeah i saw a YouTube video from a camera repair guy where he literally said "if you can see grease, that's a problem." he was showing the difference between a proper CLA and one where someone just squirted oil everywhere. the proper one had a tiny barely visible amount on like one gear. the bad one looked like someone dropped a tube of lithium grease in there and called it a day.