Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] moving parts: Lecia and Ferrari
From: "Apostolos Mamatas" <a_mamatas@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:20:50 EDT

>The old story (was it myth?) was that Ferraris  were assembled with melted
>lamb fat in the cylinders -- to make a proper carbon coating on start-up. 
>As
>I remember, Leicas were also assembled with melted lamb fat-- right? Arthur

Hmmm...I guess that would explain my drooling!

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