Yup! Just looked in the battery compartment of a recently aquired OM-10 and
sure enough, there's evidence of corrosion!
So immediately cut up some rectangular pieces of cardboard (29 X 42mm to
suit translucent Fuji film pots) and added the containers with batteries to
the bag.
John (who's utterly fascinated with this important and on-topic thread).
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew L Wendelborn
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 1:10 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] ...........Reprise What do you use old film
containersfor?........
At 11:26 AM +1000 2003.09.16, John Wheeler wrote:
>...
>leaving the batteries in without using the body caused corrosion to the
>battery contacts (maybe the same thing happens with OM's).
It does indeed happen with OMs.
Our OM-1n was showing intermittent meter failure (i.e it would just
stop working for a couple of days then come back to life etc etc).
Took it to a local tech who was fixing something else for us.
He took the bottom off and pointed out the nicely corroded battery
contact, with corrosion spreading into the attached wire.
Fixed by replacing the wire.
Problem was due to leaving the battery in the camera.
I guess the moral of the story is pretty obvious ...
regards
Andrew
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