Cleaning Battery Connections

I don’t know why I’m giving out camera repair tips. After all, the camera I’m mending is still not working properly. I’ve narrowed the problem down to one of the five transistors it contains, or perhaps one of the eight switches. Time will tell.

Anyhoo, if you have anything which contains a hard to access battery connection (perhaps at the bottom of a battery holder) you just Blu-tak a small piece of sandpaper to the end of a battery and then push the battery into the holder and rotate it a bit to clean off the connections. Works a treat (but will not fix any other electrical problems that you might have).

Blu-tak is actually really useful for mending stuff. You can use it to hold things on the bench, stick screws to the end of the screwdriver for tricky to access fixings, and also hold things in place while you assemble them.