Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/27

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Subject: [Leica] M7 battery cover
From: kkanno at users.symmetric.net (Ken)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:52:25 -0600 (CST)
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Interesting-

We have a mix of too loose and it falls off to works fine, to won't even 
open without brute force.

I'd like to clarify that mine will open with a thumb pressed on the cover, 
but only if the battery cover has previously been removed. I just changed 
batteries today, and now it opens as it should, but in a few months it 
will not come open without jabbing the thing with a knife.

I do clean the battery opening and cover off, and the camera isn't caked 
in dirt and glue or anything like that. It seems to almost fuse itself 
into place over short periods of time.


On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Michiel Fokkema wrote:

> Mine is too loose! I have to tape it to prevent it coming off.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michiel
>
> On 27-2-2012 18:03, Ken wrote:
>> Any tips for removing the damn battery cover on these things?
>> 
>> Considering how hard it is to remove them, I felt no shame in taking a 
>> pocket knife and chipping a notch into the edge of the battery cover and 
>> prying it off against the lense relase button.
>> 
>> I see mentions of a slotted M6 battey cover that can be ordered from 
>> leica 
>> directly. Does anybody know off hand if this is compatible with the M7?
>> 
>> Also, I'd be be willing to buy a beater spare battery cover to try to 
>> mill 
>> a slot into myself if anybody in the US has one.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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