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SB800 Repair

Postby sirhc55 on Wed May 17, 2006 1:38 pm

If anyone is unfortunate enough to break the LCD on their SB800 as I did, you might be interested in the repair costs:

New LCD screen $79.43
Adhesives and lubricants $9.90
Labour units $99.00

OK’d on the 10th April - received back by courier today.

Obviously repaired by Maxwell.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed May 17, 2006 1:42 pm

How badly broken was it, just cracked to completely useless.
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Re: SB800 Repair

Postby johnd on Wed May 17, 2006 1:49 pm

sirhc55 wrote:If anyone is unfortunate enough to break the LCD on their SB800 as I did, you might be interested in the repair costs:


Lend it to anyone from around here?
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Re: SB800 Repair

Postby Alpha_7 on Wed May 17, 2006 2:27 pm

johnd wrote:
sirhc55 wrote:If anyone is unfortunate enough to break the LCD on their SB800 as I did, you might be interested in the repair costs:


Lend it to anyone from around here?


I want to say preemptively that I lent my Sb-800 to Wendell and got it back in one piece. :)
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Re: SB800 Repair

Postby moggy on Wed May 17, 2006 2:31 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:
johnd wrote:
sirhc55 wrote:If anyone is unfortunate enough to break the LCD on their SB800 as I did, you might be interested in the repair costs:


Lend it to anyone from around here?


I want to say preemptively that I lent my Sb-800 to Wendell and got it back in one piece. :)
Ah but was it the same piece? :lol:

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Re: SB800 Repair

Postby gstark on Wed May 17, 2006 2:36 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:
johnd wrote:
sirhc55 wrote:If anyone is unfortunate enough to break the LCD on their SB800 as I did, you might be interested in the repair costs:


Lend it to anyone from around here?


I want to say preemptively that I lent my Sb-800 to Wendell and got it back in one piece. :)


At a time.

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Postby birddog114 on Wed May 17, 2006 2:42 pm

Alpha_7,
Your luck is still with you! :wink:
Don't dare to re-try. :lol:
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Postby wendellt on Wed May 17, 2006 3:02 pm

hi craig thanks again for lending me your sb800
i needed it once to shoot social, craig was nearby so i didn't do anythign too funky with it hence why it was returned in such good condition

birdy is right don't push your luck craig, or i shouldn't

Chris did the cracked lcd affect the usability of the flash, i hardly use the lcd readout, seems expensive just to ge that bit fixed it may have been better to buy a new flash
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Postby birddog114 on Wed May 17, 2006 3:10 pm

Wendell,
Anything related to photography, the repair bill is huge, so we have to care about our investments.

I should charge you the fixing of your SB800 same amount of Chris did with his, not a case of Corona, my mistake :lol: :lol:
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed May 17, 2006 4:08 pm

The LCD was unreadable but the flash worked. If you wanted to change to remote/master etc., it was impossible to know what you were doing without the LCD - hence the repair :lol:
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Postby rokkstar on Wed May 17, 2006 4:40 pm

Holy cow, that's a lot of money for a repair.

For that price you could almost buy a new SB600.
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Re: SB800 Repair

Postby LOZ on Wed May 17, 2006 4:53 pm

sirhc55 wrote:If anyone is unfortunate enough to break the LCD on their SB800 as I did, you might be interested in the repair costs:

New LCD screen $79.43
Adhesives and lubricants $9.90
Labour units $99.00

OK’d on the 10th April - received back by courier today.

Obviously repaired by Maxwell.


Adhesives and lubricants $9.90

HELL how many drops did they use what a rip off.
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed May 17, 2006 5:42 pm

rokkstar wrote:Holy cow, that's a lot of money for a repair.

For that price you could almost buy a new SB600.


True - but the SB600 is not an SB800 8)
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Postby rokkstar on Wed May 17, 2006 6:16 pm

Touche
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