Kodak Retinette 030/9 - Leather Restoration

            The leather on my 030/9 was in a bad way. I'm not sure whether it had got very damp at some point (no evidence of this inside the camera or on lenses) or my hunch, that it was re-glued at some point and the glue had reacted with the aluminium body of the camera causing severe zeiss bumps. 

I removed the two pieces of leather from the front of the camera (they came away easily), scraped away all the corrosion from the body of the camera and back of the leather, cleaned both, placed the leather pieces between two pieces of paper and blasted with a steam iron (this is the magic bit as they came up like new!) and then reattached them to the camera using pva. I cheated with the back of the camera as I had a perfect, matching rear door in my spares box so simply pulled out the pin and swapped them over. I had to slightly bend one corner of the door as the camera had obviously been dropped on the bottom corner near the winder at some point and it had deformed the corner fractionally (hardly visible to the naked eye).

Now it looks almost like new! :)

Taken on: September 13, 2015

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