Nikon F2 Battery Compartment Fun

My F2 was suffering from intermittent meter fatigue- which I now know is a common malady. After putting in fresh batteries I checked the voltage on top of the body and only got 1.8 volts.

I finally got up the nerve to tear into it last week and found this:




The plastic battery holder was broken where the contact attaches, and the contact tab was super crusty. Turned out the wire was roached pretty badly also. I attempted to glue the broken ear back on the holder- but the plastic doesn't seem to like glue, and is extremely brittle.

I found a thread where @Raxorio had 3D scanned and printed a clone of this piece... but being a newbie on the forum I cannot PM that user. I've spliced in a new piece of wire and ordered a new-old stock battery compartment from York Camera.

Hopefully I can get it all back together properly- open to any tips or suggestions!

You may be able to alert that person by including in a post their screen name in this manner: @MattKing
If that doesn't work, there are ways to turn your Personal Conversation functionality, by alerting the site owner/Administrator, @Sean

MattKing said:

You may be able to alert that person by including in a post their screen name in this manner: @MattKing
If that doesn't work, there are ways to turn your Personal Conversation functionality, by alerting the site owner/Administrator, @Sean

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Thank you!

Separate from the battery compartment failure, but since you found damaged contacts/corrosion, may I suggest also cleaning the leaf switch that turns the meter on when you pull out the wind lever. It is easy to access by taking off the bottom cover. When you pull out the wind lever, a rod depresses a flexible contact to make the switch close. On mine the contacts were dirty, so there was no voltage to the pins on top.

reddesert said:

Separate from the battery compartment failure, but since you found damaged contacts/corrosion, may I suggest also cleaning the leaf switch that turns the meter on when you pull out the wind lever. It is easy to access by taking off the bottom cover.

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Yes, thank you. I have the bottom cover off to access the wires and noticed that. It got a shot of Deoxit (wonderful stuff if you're not familiar).