greetings and help

[boggy]

Hi, after much brainwashing by a Wa based, guinness slurping, rangefinding using Vivitar fanatic I find myself here.
By way of qualification I find myself with a nice large lumpy Coronet GL17 (not the G111) that I have no battery for... A quick search has shown up reference to a 625 mercury cell, but it's not that one.
My camera has the round battery cover in the base, and takes something about three times the height of the 625.
need some help or a pointer please!
boggy 😱 😕

 

[Huck Finn]

For more info, try here:

http://phr.www.cistron.nl/canonet-faq.html#battery

 

[boggy]

ta very much,

now I assume the 640 is no longer available, so whats the alternatives?

tia

boggy

 

[boggy]

For more info, try here:

http://phr.www.cistron.nl/canonet-faq.html#battery

good site, wrong camera, I've got the one before the G111, with QUICK LOADING engraved under Canon, as opposed to those with QL...

thanks anyway

boggy

 

[boggy]

Making or buying an adapter, so you can use a modern battery.
I usually build the adapter so I can Use #675 hearing aid batteries.

ta very much,

Any chance of a pic to give me something to go by?

tia

boggy

 

[boggy]

I've found this on another forum (does it make sense?):

Spend $12 if you want on the PX640's, but there is a cheaper solution.

Make your own battery adapter that can accept the more commonly available SR44/A76 1.5 volt button cells. (The A76's run around $1 each from places like Radio Shack or even local drugstores.) This is how:

All you want is a conductive spacer that makes up for the difference between the dimensions of the small SR44/A76 and the thicker PX640 cell.

My adpater is made from the cap of a Crayola marker. The ridge on the cap is carefully cut off with a sharp utility knife or sanded down. The length of the cap is cut to the dimension needed to fit in the battery chamber of the camera.

A small screw, of the type used on computer circuit boards and computer cases is snug fitted through a hole in the Crayola marker cap. The end of the screw should lightly touch a A76/SR44 cell snug fitted into the cap from the open end. You may need to experiment with different size screws to get it right.

Make two of these and you can continue enjoying the Hi-matic F or E that you have. Make sure the cells are correctly inserted to match the polarity of the battery for the circuit.

I seem to be getting identical metering with PX640A's and my adapters, as indicated by the lens openings. I can't say with certainty about shutter opening times.

 

[boggy]

and I've found this rather expensive adaptor:

http://www.k3camera.com/k3/k3batt.stm

still lookin' thanks for the help so far!

boggy 😉

 

[Russ]

Hi, after much brainwashing by a Wa based, guinness slurping, rangefinding using Vivitar fanatic
boggy 😱 😕

Guinnness slurping Vivitar fanatic! 😡 Hey, I resemble that remark. 😉

Russ

 

[Huck Finn]

Boggy, in trying to answer your question, I was looking at my own Canonet & noticed that the battery was dead. So today I went off to the local camera shop. The owner is a Canon expert who owns 4 or 5 Canonets. He says that they all take the same replacement battery - even though the originals were different batteries. The reason that the replacement is the same is that the different batteries on the originals were all 1.3 volts. While there are several brands that make a replacement battery, the one I've used successfully & that he recommends is the Wein cell MRB625 1.35v mercury replacement battery. I hope this helps.

Huck