Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's SuperRapidWinder!
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:00:04 -0600
References: <EC23496C-893C-11D6-AE9B-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca>

Mine will be coming soon.

Well worth trying for a week just for the cost of insured shipping.

Regards,

Greg

John Collier wrote:

> Yes folks the great RapidWinder tour is about to head to the US. The 
> Canadian tour was so arduous that good old SuperRW needed a long 
> holiday in warmer climes to recover. SRW took along a rather loose 
> sounding Winder-M but what goes on beneath closed camera bags is 
> better left unsaid on this august and high toned list. Suffice to say 
> that SRW is in top form and ready to go but with a slightly silly grin 
> on its face.
>
> I have contacted all the previous US people on the "modest proposal" 
> list and only four people replied (probably email addresses changed). 
> So here is a copy of the original post from many moons ago:
>
> PLEASE RESPOND OFF LIST TO jbcollier@shaw.ca as I am unsubscribing for 
> the weekend. Remember the Canada bit is already done and I also now 
> have the second body (spousal unit not too unhappy and I am sleeping 
> remarkably near our house).
>
> Oh yeah, the message:
>
>> A Modest Proposal
>>
>> I will send my old Rapidwinder to any Leica-User for a one week 
>> trial. At
>> the end of the trial, your only obligation is to send it on (insured) 
>> to the
>> next chap(ette) in the line. If you want to buy one, you have to 
>> contact Tom
>> A. ( http://www.rapidwinder.com/ ) as I eventually will want it back 
>> for my
>> next body (please do not mention this part to my long suffering spousal
>> unit). I would like to start in Canada first and then, after having it
>> shipped back to me, we can try getting it across the border. My 
>> apologises
>> to other Leica-Users but I will only ship it to Canada or the US for 
>> customs
>> reasons.
>>
>> Remember only M4-2 and up cameras will work unless you have one that was
>> converted to use the M-Winder.
>>
>> If you are interested in trying a Rapidwinder for one week with the 
>> proviso
>> that you ship it insured to the next person on the list or back to 
>> me, then
>> drop me a line.
>>
>> John Collier
>>
>> Tom A. is not giving me any discounts for this....sigh.
>
>
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In reply to: Message from John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca> ([Leica] It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's SuperRapidWinder!)