Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] Aging and dimming L'flex finders?
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (feli)
Date: Wed Jan 11 00:02:02 2006

I waited a good 4 months for mine to get resilvered. 
Don did the work about two years ago. 

One of these days,I hope to come across a mint SL2 screen, 
so i can replace the beat up one I had to settle for. 

feli

-----Original Message-----
>From: Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
>Sent: Jan 11, 2006 1:26 AM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Aging and dimming L'flex finders?
>
>> 
>>> From what I understand Leica ran out of spare blocks, several years
>>> ago.
>> 
>> DAG sends them out and has them resilvered by a third party; then
>> reinstalls it. He did this to my SL and it looks great.
>> 
>> feli
>> 
>
>I've been waiting over a YEAR for a re-silvered prism.  Don tells me the
>shop that has been doing the re-silvering had been doing the work
>essentially at cost and when a big gov't contract came along prism
>re-silvering was put on hold.  Don tells me I'm next on the list and it
>ought to be any day now.  FWIW.
>--
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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