JH said:
The other side of the coin is that Olympus made a huge booboo during
part of the OM-1 production run by accidentally using acid flux on the
battery contact solder joint . I think this was mentioned in the
"Tomosy" (?) OM book (not sure of spelling).
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You got the spelling right and it's in Book 1, page 83. But Tomosy does
not mention accidental usage or part of the production run. Perhaps
that's a bit of lore from your personal history. He simply makes a
statement that Olympus used acid core solder on the OM-1 battery
contact. He then goes on to note that the contact is spring steel and
takes to solder very poorly. He recommends using an acid or paste flux
and a very hot iron to tin the contact after removal from the camera.
Then a thorough washing to remove the acid before placing the contact
back into the camara.
You may recall trying to walk me through a similar scenario on a Konica
C-35 which had corroded the wire along its entire length until there was
nothing left but copper oxide. The wire simply fell off both ends when
it was touched. I tried acid flux, paste flux, 100 watt gun and a
propane torch and finally concluded that nothing short of an arc-welder
was going to make anything stick to that piece of spring steel. The
camera is still sitting disassembled with no battery box.
Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
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