I had coated a 4x5 by 16 inch long Toyo bellows loaded with pin
holes at every fold with my hootch coating mixture. I had fully coated
the 4 horizontal corners on the inside of the bellows and tried to fill
each outside corner so that it looked like the bellows had never been
touched.. I then flexed the bellow many times... The pin holes eventually
reappeared..
The next step was that I stripped the entire existing factory
rubberized coating off the outside of bellows . I will paint the outside
pin holes with the Hootch again to fill them and when dry cover over the
entire bellows... I will cover over the existing bellows with the Black
Nylon Taffeta cloth (with the silver urethane coating on the back) both for
reinforcement and appearance.. .
If I figure the time I put into this, this bellows should be worth
about $400!...
I am very disappointed.
John Cremati
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