Well anyway, I stayed home this afternoon, as I was waiting for it to warm up some more. Also the overcast needed to clear and as it turned out it was a good thing I waited... Because at about 3:30 the door bell rang but I was having trouble corralling Biscuit, she goes into a frenzy anytime someone comes...
But the post lady was walking back to her truck when I finally got the door open to yell at her. I'm here and I need the package.... I had to kick at Biscuit to get away from the door and then wiggle my way outside without her escaping... Remember she is a runner once outside and free..... Gone!
This package was "delivery only with a signature"... But after signing several places and printing my name as well, I had it........ All the way from Singapore......
So that's when I was searching the internet for the video of how to put the display back into the camera....
What I had forgotten was that the ZS7 Panasonic isn't called that in the rest of the world... Its a TZ10 and the video is obviously Dutch or German although there in nothing spoken in the three minutes that it runs... You just watch... Googling for the tz10 and looking for the foreign language repair word brought it right up....
And watch I did, as in over and over, because my hands aren't as trained as the fellow doing this work... And my fingernails are trimmed short and not used as tools like this fellows... And mine are cleaner too.... Ooops that's an opinion...
But anyway I did manage to get it done after a bunch of hand shaking while trying to install that last little ribbon power cable for the back light.. Its too tiny to get a hold of. He uses the tweezers, but mine are lost somewhere in this house.....
But eventually I got it and managed to get the tiny tiny screws back into the housing without losing them off the table.... If they had fallen to the floor, they would have been gone forever....
So the old camera now works, but I'm not certain for how long... Anyway for those that would want to order one of these I got it from ...
Smartphonebay.net
| LCD-PANAZS7 | Replacement LCD Screen for Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10, ZS7 | 1 | $37.79 | $37.79 |
| Subtotal: | $37.79 | |||
It took about three weeks for it to come from Singapore and then the "it has been shipped" message said they were waiting for payment... Although I used Paypal, so it was paid for from the start... I was loosing faith.... but had refrained from notifying paypal that it hadn't come... They give you 45 days and then your out of luck to complain so I was watching the calendar carefully...
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I was going to try and take a few pictures of me doing this repair, but I quickly realized that the video of the experienced guy was way better than anything I could have done..
Besides, I really liked it when he dropped the entire back of the camera with the new display on the floor, and he leaves the camera running as he is reaching to pick it back up... That's about how my experience went too... Only I fiddled around for about a half an hour trying to get that tiny little ribbon into its connector and locked down... Every time I turned the camera on to test it, the backlight didn't........
It stayed cool here again today and I had to find those long pants to go ride the scooter up to Wendy's for that burger... It was sunny and about 73 by 4 PM...
Retired Rod
Well, that's a hellova thing. I've watched some of those repair videos, and I'm not sure I'd be able to manage. I guess I'd have to do it to really find out. You, on the other hand, did it. That's pretty damned awesome, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteManaging the tiny little parts is the biggest challenge I find.
If it's worth it cost wise, and fun, then it's certainly worth the effort.
I think I fixed a toaster once.
Congrats!! Don't think I would have the patience to put that all together. And my hands would have died on me before it was done.
ReplyDeleteAlmost makes a guy want to break the back-light on his camera just to try and see if he can fix it. Good job, Rod, I probably would have just tossed the whole camera in the junk drawer.
ReplyDeleteWow, I replaced my broken lCD screen yesterday also. No video for my model, but I figured it out quick. my LCD was only $4.95 delivered to my mailbox in about 3 days. Those tiny screws...Argh!
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