Nikon SB-600 Flash Tube Replacement
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I had to do this as well, for the same reason... I was using my sb-600 on a stand with umbrella and the wind caught it.
I had some problems getting the tube back in on mine and ended up just melting a little bit of the clear housing with my soldiering iron to get the tube to seat correctly.
Ended up working fine, the rest of the time I owned it
Nice write-up
I had some problems getting the tube back in on mine and ended up just melting a little bit of the clear housing with my soldiering iron to get the tube to seat correctly.
Ended up working fine, the rest of the time I owned it
Nice write-up
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I had to do this as well, for the same reason... I was using my sb-600 on a stand with umbrella and the wind caught it.
I had some problems getting the tube back in on mine and ended up just melting a little bit of the clear housing with my soldiering iron to get the tube to seat correctly.
Ended up working fine, the rest of the time I owned it
Nice write-up
I had some problems getting the tube back in on mine and ended up just melting a little bit of the clear housing with my soldiering iron to get the tube to seat correctly.
Ended up working fine, the rest of the time I owned it
Nice write-up
I'm still having an issue with the flash not zooming past 70mm because I bent the little copper zoom prongs pretty badly. I went the whole way without bending them at all, and then within five minutes of finishing i bent them all about 90 degrees.
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Yeah, I also had a problem when I put it back together the first time that one of them wasn't touching... so, it just kept zooming back and forth.
Just gently bending them back, and overcorrecting a little got them to sit tight against the contacts.
Good luck.
Just gently bending them back, and overcorrecting a little got them to sit tight against the contacts.
Good luck.
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Thanks Jake. I melted a couple of things with the soldering iron too, simply because I don't have steady hands. I found that if you solder the end of the tube that has the wire on it first then everything fits in properly. If you do the other end first (as I did the first time) then it's nearly impossible to get everything back together.
I'm still having an issue with the flash not zooming past 70mm because I bent the little copper zoom prongs pretty badly. I went the whole way without bending them at all, and then within five minutes of finishing i bent them all about 90 degrees.
I'm still having an issue with the flash not zooming past 70mm because I bent the little copper zoom prongs pretty badly. I went the whole way without bending them at all, and then within five minutes of finishing i bent them all about 90 degrees.
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haha yup! I'll be contributing to this next week possibly. Or whenever I get the stuff from Nikon once I order it on Monday.
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just wanted to bring this back from the dead to say it should be a sticky
also 800's are a ton more of a pia to get apart. a shipping company destroyed several of mine (bumped so hard the flash tubes cracked in 4 out of 5 sb800s) and now they are held together with duct tape but do work most the time the sensors are super touchy now have to be aimed just right..... hopefully i kick ass and take names on the insurance claim with them but right now it's looking bleak
also 800's are a ton more of a pia to get apart. a shipping company destroyed several of mine (bumped so hard the flash tubes cracked in 4 out of 5 sb800s) and now they are held together with duct tape but do work most the time the sensors are super touchy now have to be aimed just right..... hopefully i kick ass and take names on the insurance claim with them but right now it's looking bleak
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