R-D1 camera skin getting loose.

[bankcheck]

Hello there, I would like to know if anybody has their R-D1 skin getting loose? If so, any recommendation? As I have checked camerleather and they don't have anything for R-D1. Thanks for your opinion.

 

[shimo-kitasnap]

Morgen usually will custom make a skin if you send in your camera, I don't think it would take very long. Imagine black lizard skin on the RD-1 🙂

 

[lewis44]

There were a couple of threads on this recently. One option was Morgan @ Cameraleather. My understanding was that if he gets one, he will make a pattern and then it will available for all to order. You could be a hero to all RD-1 owners.
You can also re-glue or buy material and cut your own. Micro Tools sell the pre-glued sheets and I think Morgan has some available. Use the old covering as the pattern.

 

[Tuolumne]

Yes I have this problem and would like it fixed. I usually keep mine in a Luigi case and that solves it as long as it stays in. But sometimes I want to shoot bare handed. Then it's a problem. Especially after a couple of hours of use it starts to get tacky. Yuck. What can be used to glue the original skin back in place? I asked that a while ago and never got a good answer.

/T

 

[furcafe]

Yes, many people have had this problem. Since my R-D1 is cosmetically ugly anyway, I've been using double-sided tape (the fancy kind from Microtools). The edges are loose, but on the whole, everything is still attached.

Every glue I tried from the local hardware store(s), as well as Pliobond (which works well for real leather on old Contax RFs & such), failed miserably.

 

[jmkelly]

Don Goldberg has (or maybe had, by now) some whole lizard skins available. I bought one, cut the pieces and glued them to the cleaned body with head gasket shellac from the auto parts store. Since I saw this as something of a practice run I used the belly part of the skin - less attractive than the more finely-pebbled back. I don't think the results look like total crap:

And the camera feels thinner front to back and has a better touch to it.

Working with a sheet of self-stick sealgrain from cameraleather would be a little easier.

 

[tbarker13]

I used Pliobond on my old Rd1. Worked very well. At least for the few months during which I used it before selling it.

 

[bankcheck]

Thanks for all the responses. May be I'll just stick on to the sticky tape and see what happens.

 

[Jim Watts]

The usual recommendation for re-sticking the original covering on the RD-1 is 3M Scotch Clear Heavy-Duty Mounting Tape, if you can find it. Cheap carpet tape types won't hold.

I restuck mine with 'Evostick' a contact adhesive,which has lasted well for about 18 months but is just starting to come away again, so it will need a reapplication on adhesive.

 

[gdi]

Actually, the heavy duty carpet tape works great and is cheap.

http://www.duckproducts.com/products/detail.asp?catid=1&subid=7&plid=28

 

[AhShun]

I use UHU, which cost you $1 only, and it works!

 

[Tuolumne]

I use UHU, which cost you $1 only, and it works!

what is UHU?

/T

 

[bellyface]

i took it a step further with morgan's standard red leatherette... i kept the rubber on though.. so far so good a year later...

by the way John, i really dig the black lizard...