{"id":52,"date":"2009-01-21T01:47:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-04-18T15:01:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:01:52","slug":"rangfinder-glass-removal-and-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Rangfinder glass removal and replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you have a rangefinder with broken glass and another of the same model with other damage?\u00a0 Survival of the fittest.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-53\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53\" title=\"himatic_001\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_001.jpg\" alt=\"himatic_001\" width=\"415\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_001.jpg 500w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_001-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>This is not a post about how to disassemble or re-assemble your camera but may be of interest if you intend to replace the glass .\u00a0 Once you have the top plate removed you need to remove the old glass.\u00a0 On the Minolta Himatic-F&#8217;s that I was working on the glue required xylene to dissolve it.\u00a0\u00a0 I used Goof Off which contains xylene (Xylene is terrible unhealthy stuff and I use a mask with carbon filters, follow all the warnings that come with it).\u00a0 One side effect of using this solvent is that it destroyed the paint mask on the glass.\u00a0 You might just want to measure the window and it&#8217;s borders before you begin.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignleft size-full wp-image-54\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54\" title=\"himatic_002\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_002.jpg\" alt=\"himatic_002\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_002.jpg 500w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_002-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So in order to re-create the black paint, I laid a mask for the clear area&#8217;s with drafting applique and then sprayed enamel paint (hobby stores would be a good source for this type of paint)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignleft size-full wp-image-56\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56\" title=\"himatic_003\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_003.jpg\" alt=\"himatic_003\" width=\"415\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_003.jpg 500w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_003-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To attach the glass back to the top plate I used Elmers Fix All which is a clear flexible yet strong glue.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignleft size-full wp-image-57\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57\" title=\"himatic_004\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_004.jpg\" alt=\"himatic_004\" width=\"415\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_004.jpg 500w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/himatic_004-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course be certain to place the glass carefully and ensure that the paint faces towards the inside of the camera.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignleft size-full wp-image-58\"><span><span><span><span><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58\" title=\"hima\n<\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you have a rangefinder with broken glass and another of the same model with other damage?\u00a0 Survival of the fittest. This is not a post about how to disassemble or re-assemble your camera but may be of interest if you intend to replace the glass .\u00a0 Once you have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}