Dissecting Digital Camera

[BrianG]

Well, it was an old camera so I thought I'd see if I could find what is wrong with it. I had taken it apart a little before but found the gear mechanism was buried deeper than I could reach. I have a new camera now, so I figured I'd have nothing to lose. Well, I started taking it apart, keeping track of what goes where, but when it got to a certain level, I knew it wasn't going back together. The offending gear mechanism was actually inside the lens tube. And to get to that, you have to take everything else apart to get to the screws which secures it in place. And it's not set up where you can take off a large assembly off... oh no... you have to take everything off in layers.

So, if you have a broken camers (especially the gears) consider simply buying a new one! Even if I had taken it to a camera shop, it would have costed me way more than it was worth to fix it.

After messing wth this, an ESC is child's play!