Light-tight Foam

Does anyone know of a place where I can order some light tight foam

for my F3. I need to replace the foam at the back of the camera as

well as the mirror damping foam. Both are getting sticky and come off

if you touch them.

Any ideas?

Mark, thanks for the quick reply. I was at their site and luckily they have a branch in Europe. This will save me some postage money.

Now the only thing is to go home and check the dimensions of the foam on the F3.

BTW this shop looks great. They seem to have almost anything under the sun, so they will probably be getting quite a lot of orders from me (I have quite a few old cameras that need tinkering).

Have a look here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NikonRepair/message/2337

I've used yarn as suggested in this thread.

Self-adhesive foam strips is said to be a pain use (haven't tried myself though). <br>

Most hobby shops have a variety of foams in various densities for different purposes. I found a thin sheet of black foam in a medium density which I cut out slightly wider the 'rails' on the back of my FE. <br>

I found it impossible to remove all the old sticky goo, but removed as much as I could. I pressed the foam cutout into the rails and found that no glue was necessary. On the back door there was a larger piece of old sticky foam.<br>

I used a piece of 'velvet' from a film canister instead to replace this part since the foam I choose was slightly too dense for this specific application. <br>

For mirror damping foam; the black foam on 'foam-brushes' found at most paint shops has just the right density and color. With a sharp hobby knife and a steel ruler it is easy to cut out into the right size. The 'velvet' and the mirror damping foam was attached with contact cement. Contact cement, sheet foam and foam brush was a total of $4 -with plenty of leftover for at least 10 more cameras. <br>

The most time consuming part was removal of the old foam (2 hours!) Cutting out foam and applying it took 15 min at the most. The result looks quite professional and it has worked perfectly for about 2 years now.