Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Barker wrote: >Carl, I'm new on the LUG list. I hope you don't mind if I offer a cauti= on >about add on rewind cranks for M3. I used them for a few years on M2 an= d >M3. Often at the end of the roll when the end came mid frame I'd attempt= ed >to pull up on the rewind nob. The teath of the gears would not engage a= nd >I was stuck unable to rewind. On those occasions one is want to force i= t 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.) Jim, I'm curious, is'nt your M3 an earlier one ? Lucien BELGIUM