I believe that "shutter curtains chemically restored" was introduced by me in my ebay auctions
It is process when I dissasemble camera, take out shutter curtains, in several chemical bath I remove the old "rubber like" layer. Thank I am giving there several /2-3/ new layers of rubber like matter again. I believe it is as good as original curtains - if done properly but from time point of view I have 15 years old cameras with no problem.
Replacing shutter curtains is not as easy. Look for example on Praktina - do you know how complicate is the shutter curtain? Zenit and Praktica have not identical wide, etc.
You cannot use the shutter cloth sold in big pieces because it is too thick.
Original shutter curtains /for example for Exakta you can use those for praktica/ are out.
I purchased long ago roll of 35mm cutrain that whas good and I could cut from it wide as I needed /brw, do you not know where to purchase something like that/ but you still need open the metal ends put on new curtains. This can not be done perfectly. Ok, by 35 mm camera I can do it that nobody notice, but by 6x6 camera it begin to be problem. I simple do not have machine used in factory that bent the metal like it was original.
So shutter curtains chemically restored is not "painting" it /although in some situation when just few mini holes are present I am doing it as well, because problem is with cost of repairs it is very labor intense/ but making totally new layer that i believe is better in quality than was original made 50 years ago.
Exakta shutter curtains chemically restored - no worries ?
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I believe that "shutter curtains chemically restored" was introduced by me in my ebay auctions
It is process when I dissasemble camera, take out shutter curtains, in several chemical bath I remove the old "rubber like" layer. Thank I am giving there several /2-3/ new layers of rubber like matter again. I believe it is as good as original curtains - if done properly but from time point of view I have 15 years old cameras with no problem.
Replacing shutter curtains is not as easy. Look for example on Praktina - do you know how complicate is the shutter curtain? Zenit and Praktica have not identical wide, etc.
You cannot use the shutter cloth sold in big pieces because it is too thick.
Original shutter curtains /for example for Exakta you can use those for praktica/ are out.
I purchased long ago roll of 35mm cutrain that whas good and I could cut from it wide as I needed /brw, do you not know where to purchase something like that/ but you still need open the metal ends put on new curtains. This can not be done perfectly. Ok, by 35 mm camera I can do it that nobody notice, but by 6x6 camera it begin to be problem. I simple do not have machine used in factory that bent the metal like it was original.
So shutter curtains chemically restored is not "painting" it /although in some situation when just few mini holes are present I am doing it as well, because problem is with cost of repairs it is very labor intense/ but making totally new layer that i believe is better in quality than was original made 50 years ago.
Best regards, cupog