At 11:05 AM 2/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I think the best method is to cut of the rubber sleeve, remove a piece
>>of it and then carefully glue the pieces together again using superglue.
>>The seam (joint?) is almost invisible. I have done this on some old
>>Zuikos and at least on my Zuiko 28F2 the rubber sleeve is still tight 15
>>years after this procedure. The method is also described on a homepage
>>somewhere, but I do not remember the adress.
>>
>>best regards
>>Mikael
>
>
>My experience is just the contrary. Superglue makes the rubber stiff and
>attacks the paint on the lens barrel. Besides, sometimes you want to remove
>the rubber sleeve to get to the screws underneath, when servicing the lens.
>Superglued rubber makes a mess of this. The worst thing you can do. Not
>everything somebody puts on the Web is recommendable.
>
>
Superglue does not attack rubber. Rubber cement attacks rubber; that's how
it works, by partially dissolving it. I use superglue all day long to
fabricate o-rings from stock, to repair tears in rubber, etc. You would be
correct about the difficulty of getting to the screws, but I don't think
Mikael suggested putting it _under_ the rubber, only cementing the seam. In
that case the glue does not touch the metal.
Denton
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