How to fix your broken Pocket Wizard Shoe

25Mar08

Broken pocket wizard hotshoe footSo chances are at some point your Pocket Wizard hotshoe foot broke off and ended up looking like this. Now it’s an easy enough of a fix but people have asked me what to do so I thought I’d post this here.

 

So, it’s an easy fix and if you’ve used these things a lot, you’ll want to have a bunch of extra hotshoe feet sitting around just in case they break very easily.
CAS-PW-Shoe LPF037
P/N# 360797

pw_repair_002.jpgRemove the 5 screws, make sure you keep track of which screw goes where, there are different thread pitches and lengths.

 

 

Remove the batteries and push the circut board out of the plastic case through the battery compartment. Remove the batteries and push the circut board out of the plastic case through the battery compartment. Pull the broken hotshoe foot out of the hotshoe contact.

 

 

All the pieces of the puzzle.  Pinch the outer prongs of the hotshoe contact together and slip the new hotshoe on over the hotshoe contact. All the pieces of the puzzle. Pinch the outer prongs of the hotshoe contact together and slip the new hotshoe on over the hotshoe contact.

 

Slide the circuit board back into the housing. Make sure you put all the buttons back on and screw it all back together. That was easy huh?

4 Responses to “How to fix your broken Pocket Wizard Shoe”


  1. 1 B.waluew Posted March 26th, 2008 - 7:42 pm

    thenks a bench!

  2. 2 J. Shrader Posted April 6th, 2008 - 6:43 pm

    Great post :)

    *Where* can I find the part # described above?

    Thanks!!!

  3. 3 admin Posted May 14th, 2008 - 12:05 pm

    Call pocket wizard and order the parts.

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