Broken Spring in Battery Well, and Battery Not Removable.
Mar 2, 2024 10:11:52 #
Actually I couldn't leave the challenge go unanswered. Every battery I tested from D, C, AA, AAA, rechargeable lithium ion, disc batteries were made with ferrous material, and were highly attracted to a magnet. However if the battery was swollen, like Longshadow stated, then more drastic measures would be needed.
Mar 2, 2024 10:16:50 #
I have a Maglite 2D cell and the battery leaked and stuck into the battery chamber. I drilled a hole and screwed a large eye into it and yet I couldn't pull it out.
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dougbev3
Loc: Pueblo, Colorado
I have used these little pry tools. They kinda look like dental tools - one is a straight pick, then a curved pick and the third one is a square angle pick. from Harbor freight. But they should be able to get into the battery compartment and assist you in removing the battery without destroying everything.
Mar 2, 2024 10:44:54 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I have a Maglite 2D cell and the battery leaked and stuck into the battery chamber. I drilled a hole and screwed a large eye into it and yet I couldn't pull it out.
Alkalines behave differently.
Mar 2, 2024 10:57:42 #
Longshadow wrote:
Alkalines behave differently.
Yah, alkaline leaked and the stuff from the battery made it sticks very well. The Li-Ion only swell but doesn't stick.
Mar 2, 2024 11:16:08 #
While I like a few of the suggestions made here, please consider many to be cheap and very cheap attempts. I would not dare risk a thought on this. I would PM rjriggins11. He s end to be very capable of repairing cameras. If he asks you to send it in to him, it will take a long time to repair.
Mar 2, 2024 14:54:57 #
alberio wrote:
Actually I couldn't leave the challenge go unanswered. Every battery I tested from D, C, AA, AAA, rechargeable lithium ion, disc batteries were made with ferrous material, and were highly attracted to a magnet. However if the battery was swollen, like Longshadow stated, then more drastic measures would be needed.
Same here but different result. I used a pile of 18 (EIGHTEEN !!!) neo super magnets on the batteries for EOS M-series. Testing at the end thaz exposed when you open the battery door, Canon brand apparently has ZERO ferrous material, and the ReFuel brand has so little that the battery was barely attracted to a pile of 18 neo magnets.
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Mar 2, 2024 16:41:37 #
gener202002 wrote:
Hello everyone. br br Just wondering if anyone ha... (show quote)
Thanks everyone.
The reason I think it is the matter of a spring is that just a day or two before, I found a spring on the floor. I didn't know what it was for until I noticed the battery was not coming out. So I am pretty sure that was the spring. How it popped out I don't know. I might take it down to a shop and see if they have any kind of pliers to get it out. If the spring is broken then I will have to force it out every time unless those springs can be replaced. The camera is still good as long as the battery is good. If I can get the battery in and out everything will be okay.
Thanks again
Mar 2, 2024 16:53:57 #
gener202002 wrote:
Thanks everyone. br br The reason I think it is t... (show quote)
I use a U-shaped strap thaz just a strip of thin polyethylene in the battery chamber of one of my cameras whose chamber is somehow tighter than its identical twin.
Using it means it takes a bit more time and care to load a battery, just enuf to make sure its not hindering the contacts.
BTW, is the spring that you found a sorta conical spiral ? Thaz whatz in my SL-1 which uses the same battery as the M-series.
Mar 2, 2024 17:10:38 #
id start with duct tape get as much on the surface as you can and leave a loop to pull it out,. next Id try using a thin knife to get along the edge to pull it out. I wouldnt try cutting it out, probably a lithium battery and its swollen. The problem with cutting it out, you may short between the two poles and it will catch fire. I race RC boats our batteries are 22 volts. Ive seen them burn. even sticking the boat under water at the lake, when you took it out it started burning again.
Mar 2, 2024 17:21:45 #
gener202002 wrote:
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Umm..
Isn't the spring UNDER the battery?
If the spring came out, wouldn't the battery have to have been removed in order for it to come out?
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