Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Vick: With the greatest respect, you do not want to clean your Summarit yourself. Disassembly is not the problem, it is reassembly. More important even is cleaning the glass surfaces. Yes, the lens dates from the era of potential marring of the coating. Send it to John Van Stelten. He will clean it with no harm to the glass surfaces and coating and has the capability to recoat if he thinks it necessary. And his recoating will be current technology that will be less easy to mark with a wipe. He CLA'd a DR Summicron for me that was really grungy and had pretty bad fungus growing on lens surfaces. It came back in remarkable condition though the fungus had been so bad that it left very slight etching at a couple of spots on the perimeter of one of the lens elements - had absolutely no effect on images - and opf course he could not remove the bright spots on the chrome mounts. Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 2:43 PM Subject: [Leica] Information on the Summarit,from those who repair or have had one repaired? > Hello again. > > My Summarit with the separation looks peculiar. I am now not sure that > it is separation; it doesn't have the rainbow color look of separation. > > I am thinking that it might just need a good internal cleaning. It has > plenty of dust inside. So - my questions: > > - is the Summarit of the vintage of soft internal coatings, that will > wipe off if a cleaning is attempted? > - is the Summarit straight-forward to disassemble? > > I shot some images, and they look okay, but they were not shot under the > greatest of conditions. > > Regards, > > Vick Ko > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >