Originally posted by nocturnal The Ebay part seller is blaming the Chinese, we see a lot of such bigotry.
Why bigotry?
it is this Chinese part which fails. I had 5 of them in my hands, all five proved to be of inferior quality.
Originally posted by nocturnal The blame is firmly and solely on Pentax.... END OF STORY or PERIOD as you Americans say!!!!
First of all, it is not Pentax but Ricoh. The solenoid was first used in the K30, which was fully under Ricoh (since 2011, the K30 came out 2012
but might have been developed during Hoya-times, K50 and K500 are almost similar, so one can guess, that the K-S1 was the first K-Series
developed fully under Ricoh... same solenoid)
Second: Ricoh (or Hoya) would have tested the chinese green solenoid. It was only after few years that the failure presented itself.
So yes, the manufacturer of the solenoid is to be blamed first. Ricoh and their policy second.
But we also know, that many modern parts such as electrolytic capacitors in PS's of for example TFT monitors only last about 2 years.
Originally posted by nocturnal If mine fails I will demand Pentax fix it.
Strange demand. Your K30 is how old? In UK you have 2 years warranty. So how on earth are you going to demand
that Ricoh fixes it?