Mamiya C330

one90guy · Mar 12, 2015

Has anyone recovered a Mamiya C330? I have 2, just added new light seals to one and its covering is pulling away from the edges and it looks bad. I use to be fairly good at repairing but my hands shake rather bad and eyes not the best. So small screws and parts are almost impossible for me to replace. Having looked the camera body over most looks like just straight forward remove and cleanup before recovering. But my concern are the film advance and smaller knobs.

John Koehrer · Mar 12, 2015

I haven't recovered a C330 but if you can get the old leatherette off pretty much intact, just use it as a pattern.
Pliobond or a GOOD double faced tape are the way to go to install it.
If you have a set of leather punches, holes are no problem. Well, except the big 'un. For something like that I've used a compass with a hobby knife instead of a pencil to make the cut.
The knobs should have set screws in them <1mm iffn' I remembers right.

Double faced carpet tape is too thick and not really permanent.

Pliobond. The old standby.

Jeff Bradford · Mar 12, 2015

I recovered my Mamiyaflex with pre-cut material from cameraleather.com. It fit perfectly and matched the original material.

Jojje · Mar 12, 2015

I've covered my C220 and Mamiyaflex C2 with leathers provided by http://www.cameraleather.com/others/
I do not recall having any trouble at all - it was almost a decade ago - old letheretta came of nicely and if i remember correctly film advance knobs and so weren't bothered at all.
On thing I do regret, I should've chosen bolder colours!

one90guy · Mar 13, 2015

John Koehrer said:
I haven't recovered a C330 but if you can get the old leatherette off pretty much intact, just use it as a pattern.
Pliobond or a GOOD double faced tape are the way to go to install it.
If you have a set of leather punches, holes are no problem. Well, except the big 'un. For something like that I've used a compass with a hobby knife instead of a pencil to make the cut.
The knobs should have set screws in them <1mm iffn' I remembers right.

Double faced carpet tape is too thick and not really permanent.

Pliobond. The old standby.

The covering is usually the easy part, been buying and using Morgan Sparks precut with glue kits. Always a prefect fit, its just those pesky small screws and other parts that seem to fall out, I have turned perfectly good cameras into paper weights

David

one90guy · Mar 13, 2015

Jeff Bradford said:
I recovered my Mamiyaflex with pre-cut material from cameraleather.com. It fit perfectly and matched the original material.

I 2nd your post, great product and never have had a fit problem. I have a Argus C-3 that I rebuilt and covered years ago that still looks great,

David

one90guy · Mar 13, 2015

Jojje said:
I've covered my C220 and Mamiyaflex C2 with leathers provided by http://www.cameraleather.com/others/
I do not recall having any trouble at all - it was almost a decade ago - old letheretta came of nicely and if i remember correctly film advance knobs and so weren't bothered at all.
On thing I do regret, I should've chosen bolder colours!

I favorer red and green for most of my cameras, which probably upsets some who favor keeping the camera looking as close to original. I have ordered green for this one

David

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