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Mosasaurus
Posted - Mar 16 2018 : 11:22:20 AM Hello, Last weekend I bought on a fair here in the Netherlands a FED 1d (NKVD, Nr. 164150). Unfortunately I didn’t notice that some pieces of the “leather” were lost. So I planned renewing the leather….. On the internet I saw some difficult instructions removing the vulcanite with a special agressive gel, that is supposed to remove/dissolve paint. On RFF someone else suggested to yo use a chisel and perhaps some lighter fluid.
My question is if someone of you has experience removing the vulcanite/ leather of the FED 1d and replacing it by new leather(ette)? What kind of leatherette would you recommend? Dividing/partition line of the leatherette under the lens? Thanks for answering in advance. Regards, Ad
Posted - Mar 19 2018 : 2:14:45 PM Hello, On RFF I started a discussion too. One of their advices was: use acryl-paint..... My neighbour is an (amateur)painter. So he has a lot of acryl-paint.... Being a good neighbour, he is so friendly to try to do the job! I'm very interested how it will looks like..... Thanks to everybody who tried to help me/tried to answer my question! Regards, Ad
Jacques M.
Posted - Mar 19 2018 : 11:51:03 AM Thanks for the link, Steve. Anyway, it's not an easy operation... Vulcanite means vulcanization, so enough heat... To try and scrape the original vulcanite, and put a "plastic" leatherette is much easier.
Posted - Mar 16 2018 : 4:18:10 PM I've heard of people melting black plastic bags and restore patches that way, but I've never actually seen it done... ..
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