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Handgrip rubber sticky I guess starting disintegrating

Started Sep 12, 2019 | Questions thread
OP attilab Forum Member • Posts: 71
Re: Handgrip rubber sticky I guess starting disintegrating

ProfHankD wrote:

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.

No collor change only the thin rubber layer (that is probably glued to the camera body) sticks at a touch. Once I wanted to clean wash with mild detergent (just a small corner to start with) and noticed the texture started rubbing off (not pealing off but disappearing). I would call this phenomena a rubber layer is disintegrating.

If I could find that thin film layer rubber material somewhere (or silicon or whatever only to be a black) I would just rub off the existing from the plastic and re-apply a new material. I know a fashion designer store selling thin leather test strips but assume that thickness would be to thick to nicely fill all the corners.

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