Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi John, it wasn't a pan on anyone. I just wanted to let people know that was not quite ready to do repairs on Leica yet. I agree that Gerry at Kindermann is entitled to vacation like the rest of us. I felt a bit uncomfortable telling Lisle-Kelco to return my lens so I could send it to Kindermann instead. I have used Lisle-Kelco for maintenance and repair on my Hasselblad equipment and have been very happy. The lens has a lot of paint chips coming off the internal lens retainers. The paint flakes have deposited themselves on the lens elements. Where not talking a few specks here. All of the rings are shedding paint. It looks like an ant hill in there. The lens had been riding at the bottom of a camera bag I had forgotten in the car (my fault). I guess the vibration got to it. Its probably best that it goes back to Germany to ensure that the glass elements are OK. I'm just concerned for the length of time this may take. Thanks to Dan C for the tip on Reinhold Mueller in the Toronto area, I'll keep him in mind. Cheers Rene - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@home.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 2:10 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Canada Lisle-Kelco service > Come on, let Gerry at Kindermann have his vacation. I think that it would be > much faster to wait for Gerry to have a look at it as reported turn around > times for Germany seem to quite long. Kudos to Lisle-Kelco for being honest > with you. > > John Collier > > PS: Gerry is very very good and, most importantly, very close if there are > any problems. > > PPS: What is the problem with the lens? > > > From: "Marthe.Rene" <marthe.rene@sympatico.ca> > > > > Just though I would let fellow Canadians on LUG know. I had called > > Kindermann to see if they could still do repairs. They only had one > > technician who could and he was on vacation for the next month.The sales > > fellow I talked to could not provide me with an estimate of when they could > > get around to looking at my lens until the tech was back from vacation and > > looked at his backlog. > >