Hi:
At the beginning of an expedition in the northern Marshall Islands my red Olympus housing for my C-8080 flooded soon after surfacing.  It turns out that the tiny steel pins (in the main housing) that secure the lens port were missing, the plastic had fractured around the pins.  Anyone else have this problem?  I have taken the housing on dozens of dives, usually 80-110 feet.  Any chance of a repair? (Not a likely scenario, I know).

I know Ikelite has tougher housings, but I had a terrible experience with the 4040 housing… staff at Ikelite, including Mr. Ike himself, refused to
acknowledge a “fatal flaw”: the adhesive holding a critically important tiny rubber spacer in place slipped, rendering the camera non-functional.  Simply doubling the width of this rubber bit, to allow more adhesion, would have solved the problem.  I ended up getting flamed for my efforts to communicate with Ikelite, despite the fact that flaw appeared on two identical housings.  Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

Thanks,
atolldino

atolldino -

Hi:
At the beginning of an expedition in the northern Marshall Islands my red Olympus housing for my C-8080 flooded soon after surfacing.  It turns out that the tiny steel pins (in the main housing) that secure the lens port were missing, the plastic had fractured around the pins.  Anyone else have this problem?  I have taken the housing on dozens of dives, usually 80-110 feet.  Any chance of a repair? (Not a likely scenario, I know).

I know Ikelite has tougher housings, but I had a terrible experience with the 4040 housing… staff at Ikelite, including Mr. Ike himself, refused to
acknowledge a “fatal flaw”: the adhesive holding a critically important tiny rubber spacer in place slipped, rendering the camera non-functional.  Simply doubling the width of this rubber bit, to allow more adhesion, would have solved the problem.  I ended up getting flamed for my efforts to communicate with Ikelite, despite the fact that flaw appeared on two identical housings.  Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

Thanks,
atolldino

Sometimes its good to get it off your chest. I have an ikelite 8080 housing and the TTL cable comes straight out the back and so fails as it gets bent in the same place. at £70 a cable its expensive and they do it properly on the DSLR housings but dont except its a design fault.....

can you share a photo of your housing ? a close up of the pins you mention ... I have seen slight cracking or stress marks on these housings before but that never caused a leak.

I would be interested to see this flaw