[rollei_list] Re: Camera Leather
- From: dpurdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:48:07 -0500 (EST)
Getting the leather off is pretty easy. Just start at a corner with some
sort of semi sharp tool to get under the leather and slowly starting
peeling it up. Just follow the least resistance and eventually you will
get it all pulled off. The bare camera is a pretty cool sight to behold.
Carefully clean old glue off if there is any. I used alcohol for that.
I think that camera leather products come with adheasive on them. If not
then I am sure many people will offer advice. I used a contact cement and
just put the leather back on before the recommended drying time and it
worked fine. I was told that if you let the contact cement dry to tacky
as per instructions it will bond a little too well.
I am not the greatest expert on this list and I am sure you will hear from
others.
Dennis
> How does one get the old leather off, and what do you use to stick the new
> leather on?
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
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> Personally I would be very reluctant to send my Rollei in for that work.
> I would much rather buy the kit and install it myself.
>
> I have never used their leather kits but I have replaced the leather on
> the
> back, top and winder side of my rollei. It isn't very difficult to do if
> you have a well lit table to work at. The most difficult thing I have
> found
> so far is streching the leather around the black meter dial on the side of
> the F. I was warned by Todd Belcher about the difficulty of replacing the
> leather on the back as the leather needs to go in under the silver frame
> around the exposure guide. However I went ahead and took the leather off
> the back of my late model F and found that not to be true. The leather
> just
> fit tightly around the exposure guide. Perhaps on the earlier models like
> your Es, fitting around that exposure guide is more difficult and needs to
> be tucked in.
>
> I hope someday to be able to afford a second Rollei that I can cover in
> black lizard skin.
>
> Dennis Purdy
>
>
>
>> While I would never be able to afford to have a Leica painted by
>> Shintaro, getting a Rollei recovered by www.cameraleather.com is more
>> within my means. I have two identical Xenotar 3.5E Rolleis, and have
>> been thinking about having it recoved by them in BR Green.
>> http://www.cameraleather.com/colors/BRgreen.htm
>>
>> Anyone ever send their Rollei TLR to these folks for re-covering?
>>
>> Jeffery Smith
>> New Orleans, LA
>> http://www.400tx.com
>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
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