Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch writes: > The explanations have been here for quite some time. Leica is a small > company. They can't just whip up a motor drive like merlin the magician. > They should have put more effort into it, but they haven't for reasons > only > they know. They had the motor coming, and then the company building it > for > them went belly up. It's not like they can just up and find a new > company > to do it without major compromises. I've heard this before, and still don't understand it. You see if the situation was as-described, then the design drawings for the R8 motor are a done deal, right? So why the delay? Hell, there are *dozens* of small manufacturing companies in the UK alone that could have a winder in production from completed drawings in 3-4 months, let alone two years! David Morton | "Times are bad. Children no dmorton@journalist.co.uk | longer obey their parents and David.Morton@openconsulting.co.uk | everyone is writing a book." (+44) 171 917 6272 | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)