You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Send me PM with you postal address if you want to have a piece.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Finally I am using hard wax (applied hot) to fill in smaller pieces missing. Again - if you do not have warming plate use hair dryer. Replacement vulcanite must be however warmed up to be bend, otherwise it will break. You may use as well contact glue (if this is a proper translation of German Kontaktkleber). Good glue is Super X, rubber based, not available everywhere. I am using shellac based glue, this is how Leica glued vulcanite up to IIIc. In your case, if you do not have such warming plate you may carefuly grind in room temperature however there is a risk it might break. I am using warming plate from cofee machine to warm up vulcanite before cutting, for cutting I am using stanley knife.Īlmost always as well grinding is needed to get perfect fit. ![]() As I mentioned above vulcanite is brittle, it will break when you will try to cut. Next step will be to cut vulcanite to the size of templatre. If you have one that fits transfer it on the vulcanit piece which I will send you. Then prepare paper template, paper, because you might possibly have to do more than one. Hallo Gast!ĭu willst die Bilder sehen? Einfach registrieren oder anmelden! Please register or sign in to view the hidden content. Generally vulcanit is very britle in room temperature, you need to warm it up to cut and bend.įirstly I would warm up around missing place (using hair dryer) and cut existing vulcanite to have roughly stright lines, it makes easier cutting replacement, something like this The following is excellent too according to reference, but when I approached them, they could not ship to US.Įbay also has some other vendors, but the ones I found did not have high quality genuine leather, only imitated leather. But you have to check who has the skin for your camera. The top two of my list: Both are good in communication, quality, and after sale service. Many nice, genuine, high quality leather skin vendor (I have used) would ask only $20~30, but they are not on ebay. However, pay attention to the vendor, there are other vendors asking crazy high price, (a couple of hundred $$$). I hadn’t really considered my rather generic eBay purchase as a particularly fine specimen, hence not worthy of such an investment just yet but my feelings may change - thanks for the link, shall be a useful reference.Ī $30 genuine new leather skin is a tiny investment on a working M3., or any working Leica. All clean up can be done with water while it is still pliable. If you are going up to an edge, like the baseplate, don't let it dry while attached to the baseplate, run a wet knife along the join. Then after another couple of hours it will have gone rock hard and look just like the original vulcanite. Then when it is smooth and level using the wet end of a toothpick (or similar) to press into the surface the texture that matches the surrounding vulcanite. It is a two part putty that you mix together in equal parts, so mix a small quantity and spread it into the surface you want to repair using a toothpick or similar to press it in and make sure it gets a good hold. Buy a pack of Black Milliput resin putty from eBay or a model shop nearby.
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