on 9/16/03 2:58 PM, Chuck Norcutt at chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
Chuck, get ahold of a piece of 'beryllium-copper' or spring-brass and some
tin snips, and make a new battery contact... should be more solderable, and
then you can put that Konica together, get rid of it, and get an -Olympus-
35-RC which is a much nicer camera, and almost as small <g>.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
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