Introduction: How to Clean Your Old Kodak Dualflex II
Everybody knows,all the olds TLR after a couple of decades,gets dusty and the lenses appears all blurry....if you want to make your old TLR shiny like brand new this is your place!
Step 1: What You Need:
For proceed you need:
- A cross screwdriver
- Surgical spirit,methyl or a simple glass cleaner
- Blotting paper
- A soft cloth
- A cross screwdriver
- Surgical spirit,methyl or a simple glass cleaner
- Blotting paper
- A soft cloth
Step 2: Remove the Screws
Remove the 4 front screws around lenses(image 1),the 3 screws under the camera(image 2) and the 4 screws around the viewfinder(image 3) in order to disassemble the body
Step 3: Dismantle
Dismantle the body,beeing sure that all the seal gaskets remains intact then extract the viewfinder and its gasket
Step 4: Clean
clean the lenses,the mirror and the viewfinder with the methyl and the blotting paper,taking care of drying-up well the whole thing.
Clean the body with a wet cloth paying attention to NOT wet the gaskets.
In all the procedures is better that you don't touch the shutter gears,and not wet it at all
Clean the body with a wet cloth paying attention to NOT wet the gaskets.
In all the procedures is better that you don't touch the shutter gears,and not wet it at all
Step 5: Reassemble
Reassemble all taking care of not leave fingerprints on the glasses out of reach once the camera is entire anew