Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ladies and Gentleman, Discussing making parts is probably less pleasurable than discussing new single malts to try. Realistically, the M's don't wear out. Adjustments, lubrication, new curtains, re-silvering the prisms might be needed but new parts? I have a 1935 Contax III that has seen hard, hard use but the shutter still fires within tolerances. I have a 1936 III that needed some lubrication but it still functions fine. I have a 1950 IIIF that functions fine and it too saw hard use for decades. My M3 is from 1960 and it also saw decades of hard, hard use and still gets weekly exercise. Jim Marshall's M4 saw how many thousand rolls of film and it functions. One of the reasons so many on this list appreciate the equipment that we occasionally talk about here is that it is well designed and engineered for the work it is asked to do. It is realistic to talk in terms of a 50 year half life, maybe longer. Last, if you do ever need a part, there are all those collector camera's that are never fired, the owner would never miss a few gears and maybe a prism. :) Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html