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Subject: [Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?
From: zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:35:11 -0600
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You know a thousand Leicaphiles just died inside with that statement.



Chris Williams
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On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Vick Ko wrote:

> Judging from examining one, I think you are right.
>
> I need to sacrifice one.  So, I'll get out the files and saws.
>
> Vick
>
>
> On 1/11/2011 11:32 PM, Phil Forrest wrote:
>> I believe the optical elements are cemented inside the housing.
>> I read somewhere that between DAG and John Van Stelten, the success
>> rate of cleaning the finders that were cemented then rebuilding  
>> them was
>> alarmingly low. Not something like 20% but a failure rate of maybe  
>> 1 in
>> 10 or more. Still a large number of non-repairables. That is just
>> hearsay though from the internet (so you know it has to be  
>> true... ;) )
>>
>> Phil Forrest
>>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)
In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)
Message from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)
Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)