Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica, NJ recommends Lexol. This is used on leather saddles. Most hardware stores have it. Leathers by Mary Terry recommends Leather Armor or something that sounds like that. I have used Lexol on my M3. M5, M6 and Rollei TLR. I hope Leica is right because they all look LN. Hopes this helps. "Lee, Jonathan" wrote: > Gregoire, > > A yearly wipe with an oil soap (in North America Murphy's Oil Soap is a good > one) should do. This is the thing that old car lovers clean their vinyl > dash with. DO NOT use Armor All or other silicon containing cleaner. The > silicon in Armor All will dry out the vulcanite and actually promote > cracking. > > Jonathan Lee > > -----Original Message----- > From: Grégoire Vandenschrick [mailto:vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 7:37 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] How to treat and protect old M3 vulcanite? > > I and my wife were wondering how we could treat and protect the Vulcanite of > the M3 I offered her in order to stop it crackling > > Thank you for any advice > > Best wishes > > Grégoire Vandenschrick