Re: [Leica] Dear Dr. Black Tape (was Rubber bands and Softies)

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Black Rubber Bands- I made some using bicycle inner tube and a sharp knife,
cutting on a wooden block.
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Schneider-Laura Tully <robslaurat@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 3:06 PM
Subject: [Leica] Dear Dr. Black Tape (was Rubber bands and Softies)


> Dear Dr. Black Tape:
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.  Maybe somewhere I can find actual, for
real, honest-to-god BLACK rubber bands!  Worth the
> search, I'm sure.
>
> Now a serious point:  Have you noticed that if the shutter is cocked and
you slip a rubber band around the Softie, then
> press down on the release, that the LED's go on and STAY ON!?  The rubber
band holds the shutter release partially down.
> Can't fire the shutter, but can wear out a battery.  Absolutely forces you
to turn the knob to B.  At least that's the way
> it works for me.
>
> BTW, Dr. Black Tape, do you know Scotch brand #33 electrical tape?
Doesn't gunk up a camera, good to 165 degrees F.  It's
> the bee's knees!
>
> (Set your flame throwers to "Incinerate.")
>
> Rob
> ------------------------------
>
> >
> > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:59:56 -0400
> > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Rubber bands and Softies
> >
> > Ask Dr. Black Tape:
> >
> > > - But now I have another problem.  I found nice,
> > > two-inch, red rubber bands to wrap around my straps and
> > > Softies.  But after I put tape over the rubber bands (they're
> > > red, after all)  I can't get them around the Softies.
> > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Rob
> > Dr. Black Tape has any easy solution for that one:
> >
> > Take two, 2-inch, natural colored rubber bands. Color them with a
> > wide-tipped felt permanent black marker. Voila! You have black rubber
bands
> > that will fit correctly around your black softie and won't advertise the
> > fact that you are using a Leica.
> >
> > For solutions to those pesky red dot conundrums, write to:
> >
> > Ask Dr. Black Tape
> > West Wing
> > St. Elizabeths(sic) Hospital
> > Washington, D.C.
> >
> > (NO, there is NO apostrophe in St. Elizabeths. It' a longggggggg story,
one
> > I wrote for The Washington Post in my early general assignment days 29
years
> > ago...but there is NO apostrophe.
> > Dr. Black Tape)
>
>
>