Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:29 AM 8/4/1999 EDT, Don Rorschach, Jr., wrote: >The question of what M-6 parts does Solms manufacture and what parts does it >buy still has not been answered. Don I doubt if this information is available outside of the company and, in any event, would be a list of several thousand parts. Are you SURE you really want to read through this? Screw x-98-3274 -- supplied by Thorsen Schraubefaktorie Worms, their p/n 56789-oiu, price, DM 0.31 per thousand. Yikes, lad, you would HAVE to be a masochist to want this sort of detail! American car companies disassemble their competitor's products to find out which parts they make in-house and which are out-sourced. It is not uncommon for GM to find, for instance, that they are the ultimate supplier of an assembly in a Ford car which has been purchased through middle-men. With the Leica M, we know that the RF assemblies are made in-house, and I believe the shutters are as well as the lens mounts. If Leica can find a reputable source from which to buy their nuts, bolts, and screws which go into these components, who am I to complain, so long as it keeps the cost down. Some parts for the R cameras are made at the Leica plant in Portugal but, what the hey, does it really matter whether the component is made in Portugal or Germany under your criteria, as it is still made in a "Leica" plant. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!