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What does a rainbow mean to you? An interesting atmospheric phenomena....gay pride...the 42nd Infantry Division?
To me a rainbow screams, "Polaroid Corporation!"
Even when Polaroid was actually making cameras, the camera straps were disappointingly plain vanilla. Polaroid missed a critical branding opportunity!
In this Instructable, I'll attempt to make a new camera strap for my Polaroid 100 camera by recycling rainbow colored luggage belts.
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Do you remember those garish belts that were designed to keep your American Tourister suitcase from succumbing to internal pressure and showering the airport with deadly underwear shrapnel? For what ever reason, I ended up with several of the rainbow variety of them. I never used them since I'm a duffle bag kind of guy so they looked pretty good.
Good enough to replace the hopelessly dry-rotted leather strap that was the original camera neck strap on my Polaroid 100 camera. If you would like to do the same, you will need:
1. Two rainbow luggage belts
2. Two small lengths of thin nylon straps to interface with the lugs on the camera.
3. Two nut and bolt sets.
4. Two part epoxy adhesive.
5. Razor knife.
6. Fire starting wand.
7. Soldering iron.
8. A stapler and regular steel staples.
9. Some Isopropyl alcohol and a rag (to clean up epoxy).
10. A camera on which to put this contraption
Good enough to replace the hopelessly dry-rotted leather strap that was the original camera neck strap on my Polaroid 100 camera. If you would like to do the same, you will need:
1. Two rainbow luggage belts
2. Two small lengths of thin nylon straps to interface with the lugs on the camera.
3. Two nut and bolt sets.
4. Two part epoxy adhesive.
5. Razor knife.
6. Fire starting wand.
7. Soldering iron.
8. A stapler and regular steel staples.
9. Some Isopropyl alcohol and a rag (to clean up epoxy).
10. A camera on which to put this contraption
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As an aside, I remember in Apocalypse Now during the religious service (during a raid of all things) one of the Soldiers praying has a Polaroid pack film camera slung across his back. However, he just had the factory leather strap on that camera.