Originally Posted by
Paul Kinzer
I have just re-glued the seams of bellows on Graphic cameras with rubber cement, applied with a tooth pick. I put it on, squeeze the seam together, then pull it apart so that there's cement on both sides, leave it for a couple of minutes, and then match it together again It holds together better after doing this). The nice thing about rubber cement is that it can be pulled apart if necessary to re-seat it. It can also be easily removed if there's over-spill by simply rolling it off with your fingertips once it's dried a bit.
Since this seam is not going to get pulled on or apart with any great stress, the glue doesn't need to be super strong; just enough to hold together to keep the light out. And since Graphic bellows are double-thickness (a rubber-coated outer layer, and a cloth inner layer), even that is not as big an issue as with some bellows.
It is much easier to re-glue the seam with the bellows off the camera, but can be done with them on it.
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