Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] M4 - M4P - M4-2
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Thu Nov 18 16:37:23 2004
References: <000b01c4cd6c$033259d0$e011fea9@corp.nortel.com> <000301c4cd70$2400a5f0$1529e652@daniel> <DDFF567A-398C-11D9-97F8-00306599C552@earthlink.net> <38BD9F34-39B7-11D9-A36D-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca> <23162C22-39B8-11D9-952A-003065D5F760@earthlink.net>

I had a late one as well and it was just fine.

John Collier

On Nov 18, 2004, at 4:18 PM, feli wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2004, at 3:11 PM, John Collier wrote:
>>
>>
>> I had a very early M4-2 and it was very first time I ever "almost" 
>> had Gerry (Kindermann) break down on the phone. He worked on the 
>> camera for three months and tested it every day until he was sure it 
>> was right. I sold it immediately with a one year return privilege. DO 
>> NOT BUY AN EARLY M4-2 PERIOD.
>
> Wow! Sherry had a choice rant about the early M4-2. The first batch or 
> two really were
> troublesome. She was telling me that she found one that used SEVEN 
> washers to shim
> something you normally only use one or two for. I wonder how many of 
> those are still around...
>
> Mine is a very late one and so far it seems pretty good. Time will 
> tell.


In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] M4 - M4P - M4-2)
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Message from feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli di Giorgio) ([Leica] M4 - M4P - M4-2)
Message from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] M4 - M4P - M4-2)
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