Breaking Plastic Lugs

you will see two holes on the cover that the lugs pivots fit in
most likely the pivots have broken off and that is why the lugs were loose in the cover

Hold it in your hand and apply some presser turn hard as u push down it will unscrew

Buy a new camera .

I've tried to find the parts on the internet, but had no luck. Here's what I would do in that case...you can get an "as-is" camera on ebay for anywhere from $11 to maybe $25, depending on how the bid goes. Just make sure that camera has a good battery cover- you can query the seller about that. Then, you can salvage the good battery cover. You will have to take the camera apart, but once you take the bad one apart, you'll understand how it fits together and be able to reassemble it easier. Other than that, your options are repair, and I'm not sure how much a shop would charge you, but often it's just better to buy a new camera, in that case. That's about all I can think of, good luck!

KODAK doesn't sell battery doors for any of their models.
A repair for this fault is 24,47 pounds + shipping to the repair centre.
If you already have the battery door; I suggest you will have a local camera TECH to attach the door to the unit.

Fixed new lugs to existing cover by cutting them from an old bankers card and using industrial loctite to secure them to the cover

The lugs get a bit fragile over the years and are indeed prone to break. Spray some WD40 into the areas where the grommets / lugs sit. Wiggle the cover to lubricate the plastic and the grommet. Now pull ( or pry) straight outward to pull the plug out of the grommet. The illustration shown is from a CB200 but yours will be the same. Some covers have a small bolt at the bottom edge. Some have slots that fit into a slotted metal fitting. Do the top lugs first. Good luck. You may need to get friendly with a bit of super glue if a lug breaks.

I have the same problem - the plastic bayonet lugs are the weak point on the lens assembly, but better that then breaking the camera body mating ring. I've dissasembled the rear of the lens and will try to reglue the two split lugs with cyanoacrylate glue. Be very careful not to mix up the 3 different types of screws, avoid damage to the multi-contact plate ribbon cable, and to not to loose the backfocus shims! Cheers.

I had this problem also (see below).


After getting poor results with the duct tape solution, I discovered another work-around. This should work whether it is chipped lugs on the door or on the body.

Firstly I used an old camera flash bracket that screws into the tripod socket, and this holds the battery door in place quite securely. However it was too long, so I cut and filed a piece of aluminium 25mm (1") wide by 2.5mm thick to the right length (around 100mm/4") and shape, and made a hole for the bracket screw.

End result is not exactly like new, but more functional than the duct tape and does not further damage the actual camera: