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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 840234" data-attributes="member: 48483">Take a chance, you win sometimes, you lose sometimes. Somebody else digging inside the body was not the top of my list of guesses. Things do happen to old gear. The D80 I bought in 2007 I used very hard on geocaching hikes for several years.  I bought a 2nd D80 used when I saw how beat-up the original body was getting. That beat up first body was what I selected to do an infrared conversion on, and I sent it to one of the usual shops that do it (not the leading one). A solid 5 months after getting it back, it permanently went into an E-code that checked out as related to the autofocus motor in body. Maybe something was damaged during the IR conversion, or maybe it was simply going to fail anyway being 13 years old at that time and living a hard life. I just decided to eat the loss on the cost of conversion and deposited the body in landfill.</blockquote>