Where to get a battery chamber for a 2sp? Off any of the many with dead
meters! Check with almost any shop that works on OM's and they'll
probably have a few carcasses lying around. But removing the battery
chamber can be a bit troublesome, if I remember properly -- splicing a
jumper to solder to the contact spring would probably be much easier.
Tyron wrote:
>
> Many thanks to all who offered advise about my intermittent 2SP. I
> checked all that you guys said and am using silver cells. Decided to
> remove bottom cover as camera now stopped working altogether. I found a
> very high resistance (6 Meg!) between battery terminal spring and
> connection to diode (presumably reverse polarity protection). I lifted
> the label in battery compartment and gently pulled on the wire which
> promptly came away from the spring and has a green corroded end - so
> there's the fault then! Confirmed the fault by connecting 3 volts
> between diode and ground - camera working fine :-). I will try to repair
> this but does anyone know of a source for new battery compartments?
>
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