Hey everyone, I've come into a Canham DLC45 with some damaged bellows. Apparently the previous, and now deceased owned, didn't fold it up correctly.

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Now, when I use these bellows there appears to be no interruption (light loss) because of the bend, and it seams the only difficulty i have is when the bellows are compressed for a 75mm Nikkor it had on it - the bend gets in the way of the lens. I can focus, but It's not easy.

I've found how to fold it properly and I'm hoping the bellows will slowly go back to the way they should be - or is there something I need to be doing to help that. There are no pinholes, no rips or tears, just those bends.

Also -the thing is like an erector set and I'm finding parts loose all over the board. Any advice on finding the allen wrenches for this thing. It needs to be lubed up too.

Basically any advice is welcome, I'm trying my best to work with this camera that has plopped into my life.