Rubber glove trick

[ciniframe]

Just thought I'd share this.
I needed to remove the trim ring around the shutter button of a Minolta SRT. Could not find the rubber mat but found the missus cloth/rubber gardening gloves, the cheap kind you find at discount stores. Ring was tight but the rubber had enough grip to turn it loose enough to remove the ring.

 

[Eric Rose]

Cool.

 

[Kino]

Nice tip!

When I first read the title of this posting, I wondered if this was posted in the Lounge...

 

[AgX]

Next to rubber bands and cloth I got three sorts of rubber gloves. One never can have too much tools...

 

[Eric Rose]

Next to rubber bands and cloth I got three sorts of rubber gloves. One never can have too much tools...

Now AgX, we are really not interested in your sex life

 

[macfred]

Next to rubber bands and cloth I got three sorts of rubber gloves. One never can have too much tools...

What about a nice rubber face mask ... ?

 

[eddie]

I’ve had rubber jar grippers/ openers in the darkroom for a long time. They’re great for stuck metal lids on tanks. Cheap,too.

 

[AgX]

But still with a lot of tools there are critical parts, as removing the inlay plate of the transport lever at the the Praktica E-family with keeping it mint.

 

[ciniframe]

But still with a lot of tools there are critical parts, as removing the inlay plate of the transport lever at the the Praktica E-family with keeping it mint.

What I hate are those thin soft aluminum trim rings glued on the front of some lenses. They are pure engineering evil. Of course, when the company was still repairing these things, 25 years ago, the service dept had a stack of replacement rings and just ripped them off to get to the lens retaining ring.

 

[GRHazelton]

What I hate are those thin soft aluminum trim rings glued on the front of some lenses. They are pure engineering evil. Of course, when the company was still repairing these things, 25 years ago, the service dept had a stack of replacement rings and just ripped them off to get to the lens retaining ring.

Which evil company was this??

 

[AgX]

Not Agfa... They used a rubber cement that deteriorated over time and all their aluminium inlays fall off without the use of a tool.
Wait... typically they had fallen off before one acquires the camera.

 

[ciniframe]

Which evil company was this??

Well, Rollei for one. My Rollei 35S focus ring was slipping and access was behind a thin trim ring that was glued on, very hard to remove without bending. Thing was, once I had access it was so easy to fix the problem, took some time, but was not inherently difficult.