Canonet QL17 GIII - HELP! Lost Battery Contact!

[ryca]

Hi All!

I picked up a great condition Canonet QL17 GIII today, but have run into an issue!

I decided to clean the battery contacts as there was some light matter on the sphere shaped contact on the backside... I used a q-tip & white vinegar but may have used too much pressure as that contact is now submerged or sunk in the hole 🙁 I can see that a battery would not make contact with it anymore.

How can this be fixed??? Any ideas please.. I'm so angry with myself!

thanks
r

 

[Merkin]

if it is made out of steel of some sort, you might be able to use a small but strong magnet.

 

[rxmd]

I gave away my Canonet, but if I remember correctly that contact works as a spring. If you pushed it in too hard, you probably bent it. If you have a very small dentist's hook you might try to bend it back very carefully (more carefully than when you cleaned it 😉), otherwise you might just try and make a contact piece from a bit of aluminum foil, taking care to insert it in such a way that it doesn't short the battery contacts.

 

[ryca]

thansk for the advice... foil did the trick!! battery check light & light meter working perfectly!

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Check that the battery does not drain itself. There are two plasic nubs holding the contacts in place. If they broke, you can get a short of the contact against the camera's chassis. If that happened, you need to take off the bottom plate and make sure to insulate the contacts. I used electrical tape.