Vivitar ViviCam 8300s Digital Camera "good hung starting services" Questions

...hung and you can gently rock the lens extender as you power on the camera. I've had a lot of success with this method. If the camera takes a lot of hits to the lens assembly, it will eventually strip ...

Good luck. I really hesitate to out this out on the table for discussion, but none of the reported problems have indicated that this was tried, and I know it has helped with mine when the lens is hung