Chuck,
JB Weld perhaps? Drill a small hole in the spring and thread a wire through
it, twisting it to make a decent mechanical connection. Then the JB Weld...
I THINK this stuff conducts electricity, though I don't know how critical
any resistance offered by it or the non-welded connection might be. Seems
that on a power lead it would be OK, but we've got lots of propeller heads
on the list that could answer more completly and accurately. <g>
Dave
>
> A friend gave me a K*n*c* C35 which had suffered a dented
> filter ring on
> her last vacation trip. Sometime afterwards she noticed it didn't work
> anymore. She gave me the old camera, bought a new R*ll**
> something-or-other and moved on. The camera turned out to be
> electrically dead but not from the impact.
>
> After hammering out the bent filter ring and removing the CDS
> sensor and
> whole front assembly I discovered that the solder joint between the
> negative wire from the battery and the sensor was so badly
> corroded that
> the wire had simply fallen off. Trying to resolder was useless since
> the wire itself was so corroded that solder wouldn't stick to it. I
> kept stripping off insulation looking for bare copper but ran out of
> wire.
>
> It was clear that I had to replace the wire so, backtracking to the
> battery compartment and removing it, I discovered that that connection
> (but not the battery compartment itself) was also badly corroded... so
> much so that a light tug on the wire pulled it free.
>
> Then came the fun part. I removed the springy metal negative contact
> from the battery compartment so as not to melt the plastic with the
> soldering iron, ground off the corrosion till I got bright,
> shiny metal,
> put on a little flux and tried to tin the contact. Much to
> my surprise
> the tin/silver solder just rolls off that spring contact like
> water off
> a duck's back.
>
> I've come to the conclusion that I must be trying to solder
> to stainless
> steel. Perhaps that original wire had been spot welded in place.
> Anyhow, I can't seem to make this wire stick to its battery
> compartment. Anyone got any advice on how to fix this? I've
> thought of
> constructing a new contact from a piece of shim brass...
> something I can
> solder to, but maybe there's an easier way.
>
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