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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver" data-source="post: 171554" data-attributes="member: 14167">Yo FulThrotl, BOTH my D800's had oil droplets on the sensors right out of the box! My new one, to replace the infamous "basket case", has developed MORE too. I have the VisibleDust swab kit, but am SCARED TO DEATH to do it as of yet! Afraid I'm going to ruin the sensor. Meanwhile my totaled D800 sits quietly in my locked desk awaiting my own repair. I'm going to machine a steel or maybe aluminum body cap "duplicate", with a central hole, to use as a "puller". But it will be a while before I due it 'cause I'm doing as much shooting as I can, and rec. stuff. Ok, I'll swab it real soon.......PS-- An additional comment on people not wanting to fix things:   Back in '81 I had a '76 BMW R90S motorcycle stolen from me. About a year later it was recovered by the Camden Police Dept. in a drug raid. I got it back with a seized engine. I took the entire bike apart, as well as the engine, to repair it (this was before electronic stuff). I had to have the crankshaft journals ground and install oversize bearings. I called BMW North America for some advice on the crankshaft repairs. A GERMAN ENGINEER there told me that the crankshaft could not be repaired and that I had to buy a new one. He said part of it was because there were riveted-on auxiliary crank balancers on the shaft that needed to be removed in order to do the grind process, and that the counterweights could not be replaced. Well, I said Thank you very much, and then I found a machine shop that would do the work needed. They did it, at a very reasonable, almost ridiculous price, and I put the machine back together and drove it another 3K miles (not gingerly either) before selling it, and it was fine. Just another story..........</blockquote>

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