Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Good starter body
From: csocolow <csocolow@microserve.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:43:24 -0400

Marc James Small wrote:
> 
> This is the 1426o "Quick-Load" Kit.  It was a rather total bust on the
> market-place:  many Leica users of the '60's referred to it as the
> "neverload" kit because of its vile nature.  I bought one once, put it on
> my M3 for six months and finally got it to work right.  Then, I took it off
> and went back to the utterly sane normal M3 system, and sold the
> "neverload" kit to a collector for about twice what I'd paid for it.
> 
> I guess some folks liked 'em, but, judging from the numbers of unused kits
> which surface NIB, I suspect most of them just sat on dealers' shelves for
> years.
> 
> Marc
> 
Marc,

What is "NIB"? Not familiar with that acronym. My guess is "New In Box".
Thanks.
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Carl Socolow

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