I've always been a little nervous about the way the port on this Olympus housing attaches to the body, and sure enough, on my vacation to Hawaii, pre-dive I noticed the port was loose and found a little chunk of broken plastic where it had attached. The port will not attach securely to the body any more. Yay for careful pre-dive checks!
A quick search revealed others have experienced this as well.
I am looking for opinions on the following. I assume Oly built the housing this way so one could attach alternate ports for the two add-on lenses they sold for the C8080. If one was comfortable with not being able to change, could the standard port be permanently affixed to the body? If yes, what adhesive should one use? Should the orings be left in place for positioning or other purposes (recognizing that their sealing function would be mooted by the permanent adhesive) or should they be left out?
I'd love to find a way to keep using this discontinued housing, it seems a shame to scrap the whole thing just for this, especially as replacements are quite hard to find. I sure wish I had listened to the little voice in my head and gone with an Ikelite when they were still available!
Thanks
A quick search revealed others have experienced this as well.
I am looking for opinions on the following. I assume Oly built the housing this way so one could attach alternate ports for the two add-on lenses they sold for the C8080. If one was comfortable with not being able to change, could the standard port be permanently affixed to the body? If yes, what adhesive should one use? Should the orings be left in place for positioning or other purposes (recognizing that their sealing function would be mooted by the permanent adhesive) or should they be left out?
I'd love to find a way to keep using this discontinued housing, it seems a shame to scrap the whole thing just for this, especially as replacements are quite hard to find. I sure wish I had listened to the little voice in my head and gone with an Ikelite when they were still available!
Thanks
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