Originally posted by gatorguy
Ron, I'm so impressed with the way you're approaching a very unfortunate set of occurrences. Laugh instead of cry, how refreshing. Best of luck with those K-S2's, they were some of my all-time favorite cameras, The last of my four last finally sold a little more than a year ago, and thank goodness I never had the issues with any I owned that you've had with yours.
Keep us up-to-date will ya?
I wouldn't say I'm laughing quite yet. I envy people that have never had ABF on the usual suspect bodies. I'm now 3 for 3.
I'm not short on camera bodies by any means , but I use my K-S2's daily and dearly love them.
My beater K-S2 has already been given the appropriate transplant about a year ago and never missed a beat since. 50K clicks now.
This K-S2 was one of the very last ones made. Supposedly largely immune from ABF....Yet here it is again at 3K clicks.
I'm very stressed and aggravated , but what else can I do ? May as well have some fun with the situation...

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Originally posted by photogem
It is not quite like that.
If you read
This post concerning the history of the solenoid in Pentax cameras you will see I added recently some further information.
I had a few K-70's and a K-S2 manufactured in 2016 for repair. As I noticed a small but significant difference of a China Solenoid sold by a Ricoh
repairshop in UK I purchased one as well to find out and there is an important difference.
Any, I still see the white Japan DSLR solenoid as the very best solution.
I assumed by my cameras manufacture date and later serial number that it has the second modification ?
But since it is failing something is still wrong.
I have done a few solenoid repairs and wouldn't think of putting anything in except for the white original.
Will keep you posted on the transplant , and identifying which version it currently has.