Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/18
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At 09:00 AM 11/18/1999 -0500, Dan Cardish wrote:
>I once had some mechanical repairs done to a 50 Summilux that I had
>damaged. The repair person at one point told me to turn my back so that I
>wouldn't see what he was about to do. I did, but not before I saw him
>holding a hammer in one hand and my lens in the other!
Well, M3's, M2's, M1's, and M4's, were all subjected to "final adjustment"
with wooden hammers, as Hasselblads were and still are. Look at the
pictures of the old Wetzlar plant and, at every desk, there is a small
wooden hammer. These guys worked by feel more than measurement
("tolerances are for those who can't get it right", though I cannot recall
who said it), and worked in microns, not millimeters.
Marc
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