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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 829214" data-attributes="member: 48483">Think of this less a thing for helping an amateur and more for helping an independent repair shop.In the USA (and I assume worldwide) manufacturers have been making it impossible for any repairs except by their own factory-authorized facilities. This has been locking-out competition from independent repair shops unfairly. A growing movement trying to right this and some states have been enacting laws, with more legislation being threatened. Nikon has historically been a big offender in this, and appears to be trying to get out in front of this with some self-reform. Of course repair manuals are only the beginning of the problem, sale of parts to independents is another.This has been driven heavily by a lot of industries. The ones that are making the news are farm equipment and Apple iPhones and Macbooks. John Deere is so bad with their modern equipment that it can take days for a certified tech to come to a disabled harvester in a field and service it or have it towed out for repair. Often for a simple trouble code that can be disabled to allow harvest to continue until the part is shipped in. They are not that different than modern autos are with all the computer-controlled everything. John Deere explicitly has been forbidding self-repair of any of their equipment in warranty and have not provided any diagnostic software or information outside of their service network.</blockquote>

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