Author Topic: Nikkor 24-120 repair  (Read 393 times)

arturs

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Nikkor 24-120 repair
« on: July 29, 2024, 19:26:19 »
Hello, I got a lens with no working autofocus. Disassembled it and discovered that one inductor is damaged.

I found used main board on ebay, in US only. but I wanna try to replace and resolder inductor rather than buy a whole main board.

Component coil is identified as 96B 617, maybe someone knows where to look for this coil online ? please look at  image attached.

Thank you :)

Bernard Delley

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Re: Nikkor 24-120 repair
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2024, 16:56:29 »
you got courage ! I would refrain from self repair for this lens. It may be still quite new, perhaps under warranty! Even if not under warranty, I would carefully reassemble it and send it to Nikon. An inductor inside the lens should not fail like this. Nikon might give you a free repair.

I had my Z 24-120 f/4 S fail during warranty. The sensor for the zoom FL setting had failed and got stuck at 120mm as shown in the EXIF data. The effect was, that the lens correction got progressively worse towards the shorter FL with dramatic sharpness falloff from the center.

Nikon simply gave me a new lens with the serial number ring passed over from the original lens, a really quick repair. The technician told me that the novice technician at the shop would actually do the disassembly and repair, a 6 hour venture according to the repair book, in non busy times. With the replacement part, shipped from Japan, back in place, the would keep the lens for demo.