At 07:43 AM 6/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
> Something that often happens when cells have been in the camera a
>while is an oxide film seems to develop on the nickel plating. Wiping the
>surfaces of the cells vigorously with a rough cloth or scraping them often
>brings them back to life and is also worth doing when first installing new
>cells.
I also found that taking the bottom plate off the camera and scraping around
screw holes can help increase electrical conduction since the postive side of
the battery conducts through the metal body of the camera, and through the
bottom plate. This fixed a problem I had on an OM-4T once.
Wayne
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