M5 Vulcanite Removal.

[Nokton48]

Carefully painted on the Stripper gel with a fine paintbrush. Cutting a fresh angled scraper from a chopstick, using my bandsaw. Letting this sit overnight, this vulcanite is really thick, tough stuff. When it starts to "bubble" it's ready to be scraped off, with the chopstick.

Griptac is waiting in the wings, left side and back are already attached. I think this will look really sharp and be very functional, especially when I get my chrome TomA Rapidgrip, it's in the mail.

 

[Nokton48]

Here's how it looks this morning, just about ready for scraping IMO. Will finish the job this evening.

 

[Gazzah]

I will be watching with interest - just got an M5 and althought the covering isnt too bad there are a few missing patches - including the entire back door..
Gary H

 

[Nokton48]

OK, Well the vulcanite peeled right off, in large pieces 🙂

Here's what's underneath, have applied more paint stripper, around the frame selection lever, with 90mm attached, and applied more to the contact cement dried-on, underneath.

This is a piece of cake. Gotta got to work!

 

[johannielscom]

Easiest to do this with vulcanite that still sticks, is to remove the body shell from the camera and put it in hot water.

After a few minutes, the vulcaniet will peel off in one supple sheet.

 

[sc_rufctr]

Easiest to do this with vulcanite that still sticks, is to remove the body shell from the camera and put it in hot water.

After a few minutes, the vulcaniet will peel off in one supple sheet.

Sounds good but how hard is it to get the body shell off the camera?

 

[Nokton48]

Here's How It Ended Up.

Here's How It Ended Up.

Came home and started right in. A couple of more coats of stripper, elbow grease with the chopstick, and cleaning well with paper towel several times. Then a final cleaning with lighter fluid, just to get it absolutely clean and dry. (See first picture).

Here's the final result (2nd picture). Morgan recommends the "wet method" with M5, which is coating the body surfaces with "Hand Sanitizer", which allows you to slide the griptac around and it takes a while for the alcohol to dry off, and the adhesive to get a really good grip. I done this many times and it works just great.

Also received my TomA chrome Rapidgrip, which I machined a bit, to fit M5.
I'm done for today, it's Miller time 🙂

 

[Nokton48]

Here's A Better Photo of the End Result.

Here's A Better Photo of the End Result.

This whole process was easier than I had imagined it would be. Turned out just perfect.

 

[35mmdelux]

How about a pic of the final product please?

 

[Nokton48]

It's there.

 

[35mmdelux]

great job -

 

[Nokton48]

Thanks I'm good with how it turned out.