Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<Now <to play with my new Japanese rewind crank on my M3. Very cool piece of <equipment. Beautifully made. Back on topic. <Carl S. Carl, I'm new on the LUG list. I hope you don't mind if I offer a caution about add on rewind cranks for M3. I used them for a few years on M2 and M3. Often at the end of the roll when the end came mid frame I'd attempted to pull up on the rewind nob. The teath of the gears would not engage and I was stuck unable to rewind. On those occasions one is want to force it a bit. The end result was having to have the rewind gears rebuilt twice which requires removing the whole rangefinder assembly. Expensive. (For some reason this didn't happen with M2.) I through the rewinds away after that. Jim Barker James H. Barker (Jim) - jbarker@polarnet.com High Latitude Documentary / Ethnographic Photography Fairbanks, Alaska