At 1:26 AM +0000 12/25/01, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:44:41 -0000
>From: "Jon Mitchell" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [OM] preventing "brassing?"
>
>Could that be electrical "heat-shrink" ? Don't know what it's called
>stateside tho. Plastic / rubbery tubing you put over wires (or anything
>really) and it shrinks down when you heat it (hairdryer/ hot-air gun). Can
>shrink up to 5 times smaller, with the right stuff !
It's called "heat-shrink tubing" and is available at stores selling electronics
parts. Most types shrink to one half of their original diameter, not one fifth.
A hairdryer isn't hot enough to do the job. There are special heat guns that
look like industrial hair dryers, but get far hotter; one can strip paint with
these heat guns. For shrinking one or two small bits of tubing, a candle flame
or alcohol lamp works just fine. Be careful not to melt the nylon camera
strap. Practice on something you don't care about first. It's all too easy to
melt the strap.
I saw a Contax ad the other day. They had little 3-hole leather washers to
prevent brassing. The middle hole is round, and the stud goes there. The
outer two holes are slots through which the strap goes. I bet one can buy
these little washers from Contax. Leica may have a similar solution. Or, one
could make these washers oneself, using a sharp knife.
Joe Gwinn
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