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Re: [OM] Service manual for OM-40 (-PC)

Subject: Re: [OM] Service manual for OM-40 (-PC)
From: Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 20 Sep 2001 04:38:30 -0700
On Thu, 20 September 2001, Neal Jones wrote:

> 
> I was thinking of making a 3v supply in a flash bracket handle, connecting
> the wires to a 'dummy' (maybe wooden or plastic) 'battery' inside the
> battery compartment.  It would require drilling a small hole in the
> compartment screw cover for the wires.  An on/off switch would be built in
> to the flash bracket.
> 

I have briefly toyed with the same scheme for a battery-eating OM-4.  My plan 
has been to modify a two-cell penlight ("torch" I think it's called across the 
pond), making use of the on/off switch already on it, and attachiing it to the 
tripod socket.  Let us know the results.

Walt Wayman

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