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Subject: [Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:46:56 +0100
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All over the world.


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Chris Williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote:
> You know a thousand Leicaphiles just died inside with that statement.
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> On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Vick Ko wrote:
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>> Judging from examining one, I think you are right.
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>> I need to sacrifice one. ?So, I'll get out the files and saws.
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>> Vick
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>> On 1/11/2011 11:32 PM, Phil Forrest wrote:
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>>> 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... ;) )
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>>> Phil Forrest
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In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)
Message from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)
Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)
Message from zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams) ([Leica] Have you ever taken apart a 5cm SBOOI finder?)