Nikon FM battery housing cracked

[excalibur2]

Anyone done a bodge to fix the fairly common dreaded cracked battery housing at the bottom, the crack is around the terminal so when you put batteries in the terminal moves down and touches something which shorts out the batteries (even camera switched off).....of course the meter doesn't now work. A new battery housing is as rare as hen's teeth and I have the choice of taking the battery housing out and bodging it or just don't use the meter.......so if someone said "I've taken the battery housing out, bodged it, and it's easy peasy" then I'll do that otherwise will use the camera without a meter.

 

[srichards]

If it's plastic that is cracked there are melty plastics around you can goop into cracks to repair them.

I think the posh name is plastic welding. I haven't tried anything like that as I'm a ham fisted idiot at that sort of thing

 

[excalibur2]

If it's plastic that is cracked there are melty plastics around you can goop into cracks to repair them.

I think the posh name is plastic welding. I haven't tried anything like that as I'm a ham fisted idiot at that sort of thing

That's a better idea than mine in lifting the terminal up and smothering with super glue (as it can run), I'll have to look up the repair manual to see if there is anything that moves underneath.

 

[excalibur2]

Well I've given up as I placed a thin bit of plastic under the terminal (at the bottom of the housing), so no way could the terminal move into the camera body...and it made no difference so the meter not working and with shorting of the batteries must be cause by something else.

 

[StephenM]

If it's plastic that is cracked there are melty plastics around you can goop into cracks to repair them.

I think the posh name is plastic welding. I haven't tried anything like that as I'm a ham fisted idiot at that sort of thing

I saw that done on The Repair Shop recently on a plastic dolls house - it looked like invisible mending afterwards.