Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/12

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Subject: carburettors Re: [Leica] M Shutter Speeds
From: Craig Zeni <clzeni@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:56:29 -0500
References: <B865D277.184C0%jbcollier@powersurfr.com> <B865B62B.1D68%shout@nwlink.com>

At 03:19 PM 1/12/2002, you wrote:
>At 11:45 AM Saturday, 1/12/2002, John Collier wrote:
>
>>The SU carburettor is the simplest mechanism in the world but
>>it only takes an inexperienced person 30 seconds with a screw driver to make
>>the engine very poorly indeed.
>
>Been there, done that.

Ditto - put the wrong kind of oil in it and it'll run lousy as 
well.  Biggest weakness of SUs is their animal magnetism to people who 
simply MUST fiddle with them.  Mine get richened up one flat in winter, 
leaned back one flat in summer.  Been that way for ten years...

Joe Lucas
Dark, NC

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