Re: [Leica] Rubber paint for coating old coating shutters

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

Hey Javier:

I don't know about shutter curtains but I have tried black latex paint on
folding cameras.  It wasn't flexible enough and soon cracked.  You have to
try it on some spare cloth.  Also the pigmentation may be too coarse to use
even thinned down.

Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: Javier Perez <japho@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: [Leica] Rubber paint for coating old coating shutters


>Hi
>I'm about to buy some sort of flat black rubber paint used on patios
>to recoat some pinholed shutters on several old cameras, including
>an S&M Leica or 2. I guess that if I thin it out it should work. Does
>anybody know if this is the right stuff to use? Is there righter stuff out
there?
>I'de rather not learn from experience. My only other option is to buy
>curtain material but I'de rather avoid that until the last possible moment
>since I can't sew worth crap. Also, ever since I was little I've had
trouble
>getting the curtains absolutely parallel and not climbing on each other.
>Even if I measured the length of shutter tape and made it equal to the
length
>of curtain on the other side, jig or no jig.
>Any ideas are greatly appreciated
>Javier
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