Re: [Leica] How to treat and protect old M3 vulcanite?

[Bill Satterfield <cwsat@cyberhighway.net>]

Leica, NJ recommends Lexol. This is used on leather saddles. Most hardware
stores have it. Leathers by Mary Terry recommends Leather Armor or something
that sounds like that. I have used Lexol on my M3. M5, M6 and Rollei TLR. I hope
Leica is right because they all look LN. Hopes this helps.

"Lee, Jonathan" wrote:

> Gregoire,
>
> A yearly wipe with an oil soap (in North America Murphy's Oil Soap is a good
> one) should do.  This is the thing that old car lovers clean their vinyl
> dash with.  DO NOT use Armor All or other silicon containing cleaner.  The
> silicon in Armor All will dry out the vulcanite and actually promote
> cracking.
>
> Jonathan Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grégoire Vandenschrick [mailto:vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 7:37 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] How to treat and protect old M3 vulcanite?
>
> I and my wife were wondering how we could treat and protect the Vulcanite of
> the M3 I offered her in order to stop it crackling
>
> Thank you for any advice
>
> Best wishes
>
> Grégoire Vandenschrick