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Author Message   Cooltouch Tinkerer Username: Cooltouch Post Number: 118 Registered: 01-2009 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 02:45 pm:    I recently acquired a Nikon MD-2/MB-1 motor drive/battery pack, and the battery pack suffered from a substantial amount of corrosion, including one of the four battery contacts. I've cleaned away almost all of the corrosion. Loaded the battery pack up with batteries, and I'm not getting any voltage at its contacts with the motor drive. So I'm figuring that corrosion wicked up the wire on the corroded contact and the wire will need to be replaced. Nowadays I hesitate tearing into any item I've never torn into before because it seems like I always start at the wrong spot and end up taking apart things that don't need it. There are screws in the center section on each side above a rubber pad. Now, I'm thinking this is probably where to start. Take these four screws out (two on each side) and peel back the rubber pads, anticipating more screws underneath. This should reveal, I'm hoping, the wiring for the two battery terminals. Or some of it, at least. The wiring has to get from there to the connector for the motor drive, and to get there it has to pass through the bottom or a side of the battery pack box. Kinda wondering how that's done and which section or sections of leatherette I'll have to peel back. This is where I'm kinda hoping for your help. So . . . ?