Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Minor Cosmetic Cleaning of Leicas
From: Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:08:26 -0700
 
Jeffrey Peterlin wrote:
> 
> How would one (carefully) clean the leather of a IIIf?
>  Is there any trick to this, or is it best to either
> leave it alone or pay for the CLA?  Thanks.

I don't really clean mine but if I did I would go with the lemon oil
mentioned here. I would stay away from any petroleum based produce. No
real reason but I don't trust them to be 'kind' to the vulcanite.

Vulcanite is a natural hard rubber product.


Dennis