Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Rewind knob
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: 11 Apr 2001 20:32:24 -0700

On Wed, 11 April 2001, Johnny Deadman wrote:

> 
> I have had free stuff from Leica UK too. It depends a lot on how you
> approach them and who you get to talk to. If you get through to the guy in
> the workshop and he has some stuff lying around that's not worth putting an
> invoice on you're quite likely to get it free. Red dots and little itty
> bits. If you go through the front desk... nada. When I lost my baseplate the
> workshop guy did a huge search to see if he could find some used baseplate
> to save me buying new. I really appreciated that.
> 
> Back to the post: try calling through to the workshop and see if they have
> any used rewind cranks hanging around. Those places are full of disassembled
> leicas so you just might get lucky. Who knows? Can't hurt to ask.
> 

My experience with Leica USA is similar.  Going through the front desk I was quoted a price of $300 for a main casting for a broken R4sP.  The workshop had one - only one - for $100.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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