Good job, just don't glue the back latch shut! ;-)
John
Volkhart Baumgaertner wrote:
> Yo,
>
> >Try any type of brown rubber cement (not clear rubber cement used in art
> >classes). If the directions on the package recommend "coating both surfaces,
> >allowing to dry a few minutes, then press together" then it's probably okay
> >to
> >use. Peal leatherette up further and clean the camera casting underneath,
> >it
> >is probably covered with the old glue from the leatrher. Then try to curl
> >the
> >leather back in the opposite direction before gluing down. If you don't do
> >this, the "memory" of the curl may cause it to pull up again rather quickly.
> >
> >John
> >Camtech
>
> Thanks for all the advice I got from several people. I finally took John's,
> and here's what I did:
> I got myself something called "Profilgummikleber" (literally: profile rubber
> cement), made by a company named PETEC. The stuff is transparent, but not
> water-clear, rather a light amber. According to the instructions it is for
> gluing rubber profiles, solid rubber, foam rubber, leather, linen, felt,
> natural rubber, hard PVC, or butyl rubber to wood, aluminum, steel, or
> cement fiber slabs.
> I removed the leatherette completely (except for the piece around the self
> timer lever; I only lifted its edges) and peeled off a strip of the original
> glue along all edges. I used naphtha to remove the old glue residues from
> the camera casing and then applied a thin coat of cement to both the edges
> of the leatherette and the according areas of the casing (the old glue in
> the middle of the leatherette pieces - which looks to me as if they were
> self-adhesive - was still in a very good condition, so I left it where it
> was). After letting dry for about 10 minutes (the instructions on the box
> say 10 - 15) I pressed the parts together. Then I used naphtha again to
> remove the excess glue around the edges.
> As, never having done this before, I worked really carefully and did piece
> by piece of the leatherette, the whole thing took me a bit over an hour and
> a half, but what I've got here now looks like a solid EX+ OM-2. Not bad for
> under $ 140.- (especially on this side of the great pond). :-)))))))))
>
> MtFbwy,
> Volkhart
>
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