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Watch out for the new 'self-healing' rubberized lens gaskets
I had a Nikon F3 come in about three months ago with a sticky, swollen light seal. I replaced it with a standard foam kit. The same camera came back yesterday, and the new seals had completely turned to a black goo. The only difference was the kit I used this time had those new 'flexible polymer' gaskets. Over a single summer, the heat in my shop (it gets to about 85 degrees) basically melted them. Has anyone else had these new materials fail this fast?
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robertbrown7mo ago
New diet of polymer goo" is right. I had the same junk turn to tar in a Canon AE-1. Left it in my car on a warm day, not even that hot, and the stuff just flowed out like black syrup. Total mess to clean up. Went back to the old foam right then.
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