Nikon FE bottom plate

jesterthejedi · Aug 12, 2014

I had tried to sell my Nikon FE, but a girl jammed the shutter in 2 days. A year later I was dusting it off and googled to see if its an easy fix, as Tempe Camera said $180 for cleaning/fix. I noticed the stripped screws at the bottom, I removed 1, and had to bend off the base plate to pull it off fully. I was able to re-cock the shutter and testing its movement it is working good. I reattached half the bottom with 1 screw, and next I'm looking for a FE owner with spare parts. Anyone on APUG have the bottom and 2 unstripped screws?

PS: Lesson learned do no sell used manual stuff to young inexperienced females

mgb74 · Aug 12, 2014

Good lesson learned. Because no male (inexperienced or otherwise) has ever broken a manual camera.

jesterthejedi · Aug 12, 2014

I'm joking, I had no idea she had tried to take off the bottom piece. It was when I went to remove it when I saw the scratches and noticed 2 stripped screws. And yes males are equally to blame, I just bias believe we are more tool/technically adapted.

gone · Aug 12, 2014

Guess I'm a girlieman, because I've broken several Retinas by doing nothing more than advancing the film. We won't mention the Super Ikonta IV I screwed the shutter up on (2 days after a $300 CLA) by accidentally hitting the self timer and changing the speeds. Or something. Fortunately John at Focal Point let me send it back under his warranty. There's probably more, most of them related to self timers. Nowadays I take the self timer arms off, or otherwise disable them on my cameras.

bdial · Aug 12, 2014

I have an FG parts camera. When I googled for pics of FE bottom plates, the FG's plate looks to be similar but not the same, but the screws are probably the same.
Modding the plate to fit may be possible, IDK. Maybe you could build a "frankencamera".
Anyway, if you want it, it's yours for the cost of postage, pm me if you're interested.

trythis · Aug 12, 2014

Fg and fe are not the same size. It would be easier to buy a sheet of brass and hammer one from scratch than adapt one to fit the other .ha ha!

camtec · Aug 13, 2014

I probably have one. PM me if you are interested.

Nikon FE bottom plate

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