Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/24

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Subject: Re: 90mm f2.8 tele elmarit
From: wilcox@umcc.umich.edu (Ken Wilcox)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:21:32 -0500

Hmm... This is interesting. Glue failure as explained to me was a
de-cementing of the the two rear elements, allowing them to separate.
Hmm...

kw

>At 11:19 AM 3/24/97 -0500, Ken Wilcox wrote:
>
>>I don'thave my reference books here at work with me, by my tele-elmarit
>>suffered from glue failure of the rear element. (As diagnosed by Sherry
>>Krauter) She told me that there was a batch that suffered this fate and it
>>is well known to repairers.
>
>Every piece of literature I have indicates that both five and four element
>versions of the Tele-Elmarit have no cemented elements whatever.
>
>Of course, what is 'glue failure'?
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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