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Dissecting and Recording

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A bit late and this blog does not like to be published with pictures by mobile, but I'll sum up what happened during the past 2 weeks. May have realized that disassembling the entire camera may have one too many parts to do when you have no place to properly disassemble it, but luckily found the spot to do it a week later and now here we are. The disassembly was not actually so bad, I enjoyed taking it apart, it was pretty cool seeing how everything clicked in together and how everything is held together. Up until when I discovered I couldn't take off the top casing because it's painfully being held on by 2 microscopic screws in the worse place possible, and now I am just stuck with a partially disassembled camera. Ar Partial breakdown of the film roll lever. Here under the Film recall lever, We see our two little bloody screws in their natural habitat. Other than that, I have been meticulously been measuring and rendering what

Camera Disassembly Project

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For this reversed engineering assignment, wanting to challenge myself and also because I need to repair something inside, I decided to disassemble this vivitar 2000 film camera. I managed to pick this film camera off of someone over the summer and thought it be a great idea to have a better understanding of film camera components within as well as having some sort of excuse to just take one apart. Another thing is that the film lever for this camera is broken, and hopefully once disassembling the piece, I will find a solution as to how to fix it and perhaps 3D print that particular component. Some things that I have planned in mind with this when disassembling is to literally document every single bolt and component to the extent that perhaps I could make an assembly manual for this particular camera. Also by having a meticulously planned and diagram of the camera, I'll hopefully be able to reassemble it with ease and stress free as I have the tendency to just mess thin