NEVER NEVER EVER SILICONE on wooden cameras!! It gradually breaks down cellular structure of both wood fibers and leather. Second, it's a one-way street; once you apply it, nothing else is going to get along with it.
Gaffer's tape in a Hollywood thing. It's temporary. Then there's book tape, the good stuff. If I had to do a bellows repair in the field, it would be black tent repair tape. But real ducks always carry Duck Tape, in case they need to repair a shotgun pellet wound on the fly. I once had to replace two snapped-off legs of a friend's Gitzo CF tripod, using prosthetic substitutes whittled from whitebark pine branches, and attached with the duct tape he brought along. It worked, and probably would have won the "World's Ugliest Tripod" award if anyone else had been around way up there.
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