Donor or restore it?

You are looking for parts. You found it , one that could offer the parts you need. Back to your working table, you found it almost repairable.

So, Would you still going to make it as donor?
Or, trying hard to repair it? (And leve the waiting one still in the waiting list? )


There is an AP Pentax survived from a great fire and was treated as parts. I found it accidentally from junks. After some quick cleaning.I found it is o, just a few parts missing. So I put it into waiting list and waited for years for parts.

Today I came across an early Pentax H2. It has got all parts I wanted for AP. I thought it has lost the shutter curtains and unrepairable but later it is not. The old shutter curtains just lost their glue and rolled up at the left side.it is a easy fix and then it could come back to live.

I am now in-between an don't sure what to do next.

I have a motto for this: let the prettier one live on.

I've been looking for a completely run-down Nikon F-301 with an intact shutter. I want to install it in the one I'm currently working on.

But all the ones I've seen are in better condition.

There would need to be an online bargain bin for obtaining spare parts.

Andreas Thaler said:

There would need to be an online bargain bin for obtaining spare parts.

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There already is -- kind/sorta. It's the regular EBAY categories but with items listed with the PARTS/REPAIR designation. I list stuff -- i.e., lenses, etc. that are in good cosmetic/optical shape, but need some TLC -- all the time for 99¢. Plenty of other people do too. I've found some winners there that only needed a little "help" -- but like any "Bargain Bin", it takes time hunting around.

xkaes said:

There already is -- kind/sorta. It's the regular EBAY categories but with items listed with the PARTS/REPAIR designation. I list stuff -- i.e., lenses, etc. that are in good cosmetic/optical shape, but need some TLC -- all the time for 99¢. Plenty of other people do too. I've found some winners there that only needed a little "help" -- but like any "Bargain Bin", it takes time hunting around.

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Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it.