Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Joe, and ALSO, no offense intended EVEN to the "professional" victims of today. Try P.C. on the next generation. BTW, I had a helluva lot more respect for these great men (from the generation when "Japanese craftspersons" or "German craftspeople" (90s terminology) built the M4 and the Nikon F and F2 than for the corporate bean counters turning out AF crap lens barrells or that maladjusted piece of shit (M4-?, M6) they're STAMPING out (literally) today. And yes, I have a new one. And as my "kraut" mentor joked, "It's an O.K. camera, now that I finished it!!!" (referring to my then-new M4-P. The corporate a**holes (don't want to "offend" anyone) need to worry less about "hostile work environments" and "derogatory name-calling" and worry more about adjusting the damn cameras before gluing (YES-gluing-in the G*D*MN LEICA) the F**King adjustments. Well, there, I started it up again...... Walt the W.O.P. (not really, I gots mah papers) On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Joe Stephenson wrote: > Dear Walt, > No offense intended, but the terms "Jap" and "ol' kraut" are "disparaging > and offensive" according to the Random House Dictionary, and probably by > many LUG members. > Sincerely, > Joe Stephenson > [cut] > > > > > >BTW, Lighter fluid first (screw ROR) -- or carburetor cleaner!! > >Learned this trick from a genuine Pentax Jap friend. Gets the > >oil off. Then follow with (cloudy) ammonia... Clean flannel > >sheet scrap or well laundered cloth diaper. Worked in a > >camera repair shop and the ol' Kraut I worked for wouldn't > >allow a piece of lens paper in the joint....This was Stumpf > >Photo Optical, Houston, Tx. -- Karl Stumpf -- The most known, > >respected, crotchety, ornery ol' bastard in the free world. > >AND the best (leica, rollei, nikon F/F2/SP etc.) repairman > >in the south 20 years ago..........I'm proud to say that I > >learned 10% of what he knew, and I was a damn good repairman > >until the A1/F3/X700 put ALL of us out of business (by choice). > >CU later, Walt > > > > > > > >