Hi:
I use a very thin, very lightweight, very cheap and
very durable nylon cloth available from party supply
stores. It is sold as picnic table cloths. It is
opaque in the black color. It is around $10 for a roll
a yard wide and 50 feet long.
Two layers cemented together with 3M Type 77 neoprene
adhesive work very well with no stiffeners.
I have been using one set of bellows made with this
material for two years with no signs of wear or light
leaks at all.
Good luck
Tyler
--- george jiri loun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
>
>
> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001J.Wayde Allen wrote:
>
> > > Why not to use the "original" material?
> >
> > Well ... "original" material would be Moroccan
> Leather.
> ------------------------------------------
> Would it?? Why not the "original" material from
> Wista cameras for . ex??
> Pretty the same as the one from flexproducts...
>
> > This stuff has
> > become a bit difficult to find in sufficiently
> thin stock. I did locate
> > an importer here in the U.S. that could get it
> from a tannery in Italy,
> > but the minimum order was around $5000 and would
> have been more material
> > than I could have used in my lifetime.
> ------------------------------------------
> Your experience sounds pretty useful for the rest of
> us.
>
>
> > > I have received professional bellows
> > > material from a Shutterbug advertiser Flexible
> Products Corp. in
> Florida.
> > > Their address is www.flexproducts.com . A very
> fairly priced, prof.
> quality,
> > > they will even help you with advice (they did to
> me, 12 years ago, I
> still
> > > have a lot of it, so cheap it was...-:)
> >
> > Your experience from 12 years ago sounds pretty
> good. I called them a
> > couple years ago when I needed to locate some
> material, and they weren't
> > particularly helpful to me. Could be the guy I
> talked to was just having
> > a bad day, however he was more interested in
> selling me a bellows than the
> > material to make my own.
> >------------------------------------------------
> Well, next time try perhaps with more kindness,
> maybe that will help. It did
> for me, even if they were more interested in selling
> me a bellows than the
> material to make my own...
>
> > Besides, I don't think it hurts for us to explore
> other possibilities.
> > Some of these newer polyester or nylon materials
> are very durable and
> > water resistant if not waterproof.
> -------------------------------------------
> I agree. The material I got from flexproducts is a
> very durable nylon,
> water resistant if not waterproof. It doesn't hurt
> to explore that
> possibility from flexproducts either. George
> > - Wayde
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