I bought a Nikon FE on eBay. Owner says it hasn't been used for about 15 years. I fitted new batteries. Meter worked for a few seconds and then stopped. Took out batteries - which were very warm. The meter now won't work. Can anything be done. The camera was sold 'as it'.
Jerome
If the batteries discharged sufficiently to become very warm in just a few seconds then there's an internal short circuit and the internal circuitry has almost certainly been fried beyond repair. To get warm so fast, those batteries will have shoved some significant current through circuitry designed to handle mere milliamps.
Your camera will be repairable using donor spares, but the repair will cost more than buying another fully functional FE especially when you add on the costs of the CLA (Clean, Lubricate, Adjust) service that it will almost certainly need and the likely need for foam light seal replacement. If you buy another FE it will also most likely need a CLA and seal replacement unless there's proof of it being recently done, but at least you won't have the additional costs of buying a donor FE, stripping it for parts and then doing a heart transplant on it.
On balance, yours is best used as a spares donor; you'll get some of what you spent back if you sell it as a spares/repairs example.
Sorry there's no fix, but I hope that you have still found my reply to be of some use. If so, please rate my answer.
The aperture control ring of my FE doesn't move along with the lens. You have to hold it properly for the 2 rings to move together. Does it need lubrication?
REMOVAL & INSTALLATION
2RZ-FE and 3RZ-FE Engines
See Figure 2
Fig. Fig. 2: Exploded view of the MAF meter on the 2RZ-FE and 3RZ-FE engines
Fig. Fig. 3: Remove the bolts securing the meter
To install:
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