Nikon F… so close
Here it is!
As you can see it’s a little more worn than the stock image I posted below :).
It’s been a few days of scraping off battery leakage out of the battery pack and I think I’ve gotten the battery compartment as clean as I’m gonna get it, though it’s a ways away from perfect (this must be what my dentist feels like).
I finally got impatient and popped in 8 AA batteries and hooked it up.
clickety-clickety-clickety-cuhlickety-cuuuhlick…ety-cuh…..lick….et… Aw crap!
It worked, for a bit, and then kinda slowed down and stopped. It seemed like it didn’t have the juice, or at least that’s what I’m telling myself, since the obvious explanation for that is better than “the motor is hosed.”
The one contact spring that was caked in potassium hydro-leaky-whatever goo was pretty corroded (aka rusted). I hit it with a trusty eraser, but it really didn’t clean up well. My fear (or rather my hope) is that that rusted contact just isn’t letting through enough juice to reliably power the motor.
That said, I picked up a roll of 35mm film (Kodak BW400CN) so motor or no, look for some images soon.
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