Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Minor Cosmetic Cleaning of Leicas
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:48:48 -0400

Isn't lemon oil a petroleum product?

Dan C.

At 10:08 PM 10-04-00 -0700, Dennis Painter wrote:
>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.