Ikelite housing conversion advice

[Peter McGuinness]

Hi,
I recently bought a used ikelite housing for my c7070wz. It was being used with a 5060, and consequently has the larger rubber buffer which needs to be swapped out for the appropriately smaller one to allow insertion of the 7070.

The nice people at Ikelite are sending me the new buffer, but the one already installed looks pretty firmly glued in place; does anyone have experience in removing this? If so, any advice would be much appreciated.

Peter

 

[RJP]

Hi,
I recently bought a used ikelite housing for my c7070wz. It was being used with a 5060, and consequently has the larger rubber buffer which needs to be swapped out for the appropriately smaller one to allow insertion of the 7070.

The nice people at Ikelite are sending me the new buffer, but the one already installed looks pretty firmly glued in place; does anyone have experience in removing this? If so, any advice would be much appreciated.

Peter

It's foam, and will rip out quite easily. Then use a plastic knife or similar to remove what little bit is left glued on to the housing.

 

[Peter McGuinness]

It's foam, and will rip out quite easily. Then use a plastic knife or similar to remove what little bit is left glued on to the housing.

Thanks for the reply, RJP, but I should have been more specific; I was not referring to the foam which braces the back of the camera, and surrounds the LCD, but to the hard clear rubber hemisphere glued to the front of the housing at the right side of the port. This braces up against the camera grip, which is larger on the 7070 than on the 5060.

Peter