replacement Vulcanite for M2

No, you don't need to remove the levers. But you do need to carefully scrape off all the old vulcanite. www.cameraleather.com has good instructions on how to apply the leather, but there are threads on difficulties getting their leather.
 
+1 for Aki-Asahi. I have done four cameras with his material and it is: An excellent and accurate replacement for original vulcanite, cheap as chips, ships quickly, ands easy to apply. The biggest part of the job is cleaning the old glue from the camera; not at all difficult, but a little time consuming. I have always been fairly meticulous about this and the results have been wonderful. You could probably do half the job with close to the same results. Almost no technical skill is involved, just some common sense. Do it yourself and have fun.
 
CRR Luton creates actual vulcanite similar to the original coat.

Aki-Asahi skins are of a compound leatherette as I recall. It's not actually vulcanite.
+1 for their stuff though. Recently reskinned an Leica IIIc with minimum hassle. Cheap and swift shipping.
 
Another vote for Aki-Asahi. Just re-skinned an M2 and didn't have to replace the vulcanite on the camera door because the Asahi leatherette looked almost identical. It's also pretty "grippy" so if your M2 is a shooter, like mine, that's the way to go.

Do be thorough with removing the vulcanite on the camera though.

Best,
-Tim
 
Timmyjoe said:
Another vote for Aki-Asahi. Just re-skinned an M2 and didn't have to replace the vulcanite on the camera door because the Asahi leatherette looked almost identical. It's also pretty "grippy" so if your M2 is a shooter, like mine, that's the way to go.

Do be thorough with removing the vulcanite on the camera though.

Best,
-Tim
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thanks tim any hints at removing the vulcanite, and or tools needed to remove it

cheers Mike
 
I know that Morgan's site updates are infrequent and that some of you have trouble getting a hold of him, but I've recovered 2 K1000s, an LX, A Leica M2, a Pentax ME Super and an MG with his offerings and was pleased every time. I still have the ME Super, one of the K1000s, the LX and the M2. The M2 is done up in green kidskin leather and I adore it.

The MG and the first k1000 are unfortunately no longer with us.

EDIT: stripping the old, dead, nasty vulcanite from my Leica was easy, though it necessitated the extremely careful use of some fairly strong paint stripper. I applied the new leather with the cameraleather.com "wet method".
 
Aki Asahi is highly recommended. Great service and really fast shipping. Ordered it last Friday and got it in the mail yesterday! Very fast from Japan to the Netherlands.

Very easy to apply, here is my reborn M2:
 

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