Hi there! I have a Pentax S1A that I want to get overhauled and working again.
Here's the thing though, I am trying to deodorize it first. The camera has spent the last 30+ years inside it's case and the back of the camera (curiously not the front) seems to have this strong sweetish aroma coming from the black textured area that makes me dizzy. I have let it sit in the open air for the last 2 months and nothing changed. I have tried dish soap, potassium hand soap, castile hand soap. No luck. I've tried leaving it in a casserole container with baking soda for several days, no luck either. I still have on my list to try: vinegar in a bowl in the container overnight, paste of hydrogen perioxide mixed w/ sodium bicarbonate in order to generate massive oxygen and scrub at it, zeolite overnight, newspapers overnight, charcoal overnight, spray it with febreze (cyclodextrins). I suppose a last resort would be to strip the grip material off and replace it, but I'd like to avoid doing that because it's in perfect condition. Advice appreciated. Thanks! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
