O'ring for WP-DS50

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daisythecat

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I have got a Canon A95 and the housing . Got some great photos with it in Red Sea. Have now booked a trip out to Ningaloo in June and think that it would be best if I had spare o'ring but am having trouble find a place to buy such a thing and my local camera shop was not of any help. Can anyone tell me where I can order an o'ring for my WP-DS50 - Thanks
 
If you search the forum, you'll get two answers:

(1) is Canon USA customer support; they'll sell you the O-ring (phone # with the packaging)

(2) is www.uwdigitalcamera.com in Japan. The owner is apparently extremely helpful and has reasonable pricing.

(3) is an industrial O-ring supply house, which should be able to locate you a duplicate. The O-ring is apparently a standard either Japanese or metric size.
 
Great Prices from the Guy in Japan, but the postage would have ended up being aroudn 40-50 Bucks!!!!!!!!!!!! And the O-Ring was like $8....hmmm. I'll try canon now!
 
Hi Daisy,
Try this address 10 pound per O ring not bad.
This is the address in the UK for the Canon O rings
H. Lehmann Ltd.
247/249 London Road
Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 5AA
01782 413611
h.lehmann@dial.pipex.com
 
O-rings are generally measured by their cross-section diameter, and the inside diameter inside the "O" If you want to be cheap, you can just measure your O-ring (be careful not to squeeze excessively; we're talking undeformed diameters), and talk to an industrial/maintenance supply house. You could use the spare O-ring as the 'travel & storage' O-ring, and put on the regular O-ring the night before the dive.

There are several O-ring "standards" (sort of like screws, or soft drink bottle sizes...). I've heard that Canon's (and Oly's) use JIS, rather than ANSI (US) or metric sizing (JIS is actually metric, but let's not go there...). Once you know the specific O-ring parameters (which are cross-section, diameter, and Shore durometer, which is a measure of the 'rubber' hardness), you can get a replacement O-ring. Any industrial O-ring material will work quite well (at the right durometer) to replace the Canon O-ring. Common materials used are nitrile, viton, silicone, EPDM, & good old neoprene. They all have different chemical & temperature resistances, but for tropical/semitropical water diving, are all good.
 
If you don't know already you can get the O-ring through canon. they are like $15+.
 

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