Battery compartment is cemented to the metal mechanism plate underneath.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Help- faulty OM2SP?
> 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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