[MF3D.FORUM:906] Re: Mount Colors + Dropped Spud conclusion

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

William Rosenberg wrote:
> Dropped Spud story continued....  Had the rolls developed yesterday in NYC.
> First roll was grossly ruined,  HUGE LIGHT LEAK ugh!  Post crazy glue
> rolls were great!  Thank goodness for .99 cents crazy glue quick fix.  My
> advice is to keep a new sealed tube in your camera bag and most of all have
> a sturdy camera bag that will at least absorb some of the shock.
> 

I'm glad to hear your Sputnik is back in action.

I would very strongly recommend against keeping Crazy Glue (or any
other cyanoacrylate (CA)) in a camera bag for two reasons.

First, CA glues only have about a six month self life.  After that
they are no longer effective.  I tend to go the the WRAM (Westchester
Radio Aero Modellers) show each year and by fresh bottles straight
from the manufacturer.  Once I get them home they go right in the
freezer.

Second, bottles of glue have a habit of leaking.  When I used to fly
C/L airplanes there were guys who had all sorts of stuff glued to
their flight boxes because a bottle leaked.  In a camera bag it would
be even worse.  One of the uses of CA is a method of making finger
prints easier to see (the fumes from the glue react with the moisture
on the surface).  Having a permanent set of fingerprints on your
equipment would be really bad, especially on a lens.

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