Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vick, Doug and I wrote:
>Vick:> I'll give you my address; can you send them to me?
>>
>> Or better, continue to work on your other Leica's, and eventually,
>>you'll collect enough parts to build an
>> additional one !
>
>> :-)
>
>Doug: I believe this was written with tongue in cheek but it's
>really close to how I'm building my Leicaflex SL fleet
>
;-)
>Vick: >Just remember - the craftsmen at Leitz were not magicians, merely
>very
>>skilled. Whatever they assembled, can be disassembled, serviced, and
>>reassembled.
>
>Alex: But what do I do with the bits that are left over?.............. :-)
>
Reminds me of the story of the guy in the German perambulator (baby
buggy?) factory in 1938.
His wife was expecting, so he smuggled out all the parts to assemble
at home, and present his beloved with a brand new buggy when she
produced.
Eventually he thought he'd got all the parts. That evening his wife came in.
"How goes it with the pram?"
Her husband scratched his head, and said:
"Strange, but whichever way I assemble it, I end up with a machine gun".
Ouch! So it goes.......
Best
alex
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