I am restoring a Master View. It's in fairly good/functional condition but has some corrosion issue. I do not want to strip off the original enamel. Any advice on the following restoration topics would be appreciated.
- Two of the original knobs are missing. These seem to be press fit brown enamel painted metal.
- Corrosion is present at some of the sections of the body / some of the enamel has been worn though. It looks like magnesium rust but I don't know. My thought was to clean out the rusting material carefully with a drumel and then coating the area with some sort of zinc primer followed by hobby modelers enamel matched to the color as close as I can eyeball, but I don't know what's best here.
- The brass spring for holding the ground-glass frame on are corroded along with anything brass (it looks like the copper content was too high). My thought was to sand these out and then coat them in museum wax.
- All of the metal screws are rusted (iron). I'm hoping to trade everything out for stainless steel but the prospect of matching every screw on the camera is a bit worrisome.
- The bellows need sealed. I've used liquid electricians tape in the past but here that would have to be done on the interior of the bellows because they are brown rather than black on this camera.
- Some of the flat black interior pant and felt seals need replaced. What is the best interior coating?
- Some of the gear work on the focusing mechanism has rust. I'm thinking buff it out as best I can and then use museum wax.
- I'm not sure about this, but it kind of looks like the tripod mount for this camera is backwards. It protrudes out from the base by about 1/8th of an inch. This does keep the base from ever getting scratched, but it means the camera is held 1/8 above the base plate on the tripod and gains no additional stability. The tripod mount itself is in a small disk held in with 3 screws. Does anyone know if it was meant to be mounted like this? It seems odd but thinking about it the screws are inset so this is probably correct.
Thanks in advance for any help !
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