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Handgrip rubber sticky I guess starting disintegrating

Started Sep 12, 2019 | Questions thread
ProfHankD
ProfHankD Veteran Member • Posts: 9,146
Re: Handgrip rubber sticky I guess starting disintegrating

attilab wrote:

I have my old - like new Canon EOS Elan 7 film camera sitting in a glass box since the digital started conquering the world.

Taking it out from time to time, still the shutter sounds sharp, I have nice memories with that film camera, the time may come back hoping so to use it again.

I would like to refurbish that rubber grip over this winter, it looks like I will have plenty of time (living in Canada :)).

Anybody have a good advise for material or source, can you help me out with links or tips. Thanks.

Don't know that camera, but the Minolta Maxxum 7000 grip commonly gets white crud on it, so here's a discussion about fixing that . Basically, the answer seems to be products marketed for maintaining leather/vinyl parts in cars.

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