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The small orange plastic latch that keeps the battery pushed into the camera has snapped and broken; so the battery does not connect to power the camera. Is there any way to fix this on my own? Or should I find a camera repair place?
Hi I have the same problem, any advice on how to fix it or get a replacement part?
Hi, i’m living in Germany. Same problem with that yellow/orange clip here. I’ve sent my Nikon 1J1 to an autorized Nikon Service repair shop. They have that part and it costs 4 Euro, but they can’t sell it to me without a repair fee and they have to clean the camera professionally (54 Euros) . Which is joke, because the camera was clean. The overall cost estimate incl. shipping and tax was 69,50 Euros. What a joke. I told them that they should send me back the camera without doing anything to it. Will look for a broken camera to get spare parts from.
Here is what I did and I am not an engineer or designer. First I opened up the camera and removed the broken cheap piece of plastic. I then took a small piece of metal and formed it into the correct shape with some needle nose pliers, lineman’s pliers, a small hammer and some metal snips. Once this was done I carefully bent the spring to the left to ensure it held the new piece of metal in place. I then put in the new piece, made sure the spring was in place and put the camera back together.
