Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:35:41 -0500
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Judging from examining one, I think you are right.

I need to sacrifice one.  So, I'll get out the files and saws.

Vick


On 1/11/2011 11:32 PM, Phil Forrest wrote:
> I believe the optical elements are cemented inside the housing.
> I read somewhere that between DAG and John Van Stelten, the success
> rate of cleaning the finders that were cemented then rebuilding them was
> alarmingly low. Not something like 20% but a failure rate of maybe 1 in
> 10 or more. Still a large number of non-repairables. That is just
> hearsay though from the internet (so you know it has to be true... ;) )
>
> Phil Forrest
>
Replies: Reply from zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)
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