Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 strap lugs question...
From: John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:28:25 -0700

The later cameras (M6 for sure but not the M4-2, M4-P?) have strap lugs
secured by machine screws. The lugs do not unscrew. You have to unscrew them
from the inside*. It is easy to tell what your camera has, just pull off the
baseplate and look. DO NOT TRY TO REPLACE THE RIVETTED ONES YOURSELF. If it
comes loose, you camera and lens may well be ruined. Henning Wulff had one
come off his new but quickly used M4-2. Leica graciously replaced the lens
as well as the body under warranty. Proof that bad things can happen to nice
people regardless of what your Sunday school teacher might have intimated.

John Collier

*I have not changed any myself so I do not know how difficult or easy it is
to get access to the one on the take-up spool side. Looks like a right angle
screwdriver might do the trick otherwise.

> From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
>
> They are actually rivets.  The lug is placed into the camera and a device
> is used to expand the protruding part.  I had an M3 that somebody botched
> by fitting screws to the lugs from the inside, but the lugs both fell off
> not long after I started using it.  Kindermann put the proper lugs on it
> for me.  They used to be brass, but the new ones are in stainless steel.
>

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