Re: [Leica] Re: Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial

["Guido Soprano" <guidosoprano@hotmail.com>]

Hi Stan,

thanks for your response, sharing my pain :=)

Normally, I would just live with it. But...mine just came back from a highly 
respected (by this list, at least) independent Leica Service station (whose 
name shall not be provided, to protect the guilty), after a $180 (plus 
packing & shipping) CLA. Before it went, 1/5 was fine, all I wanted done was 
to have the wind mechanism lubed so it was lighter on the thumb.

Should I send it back, ask for my money back, send it somewhere else, or 
some combination? Opinions welcomed.

So, we have a made-in-the-50's camera, when, according to some on this list, 
Leica could only produce perfection, serviced by one of the best for about 
1/3 the value of the camera...and it doesn't work right. I'm pissed, just 
not sure where to direct it :=(

Guido the poorly timed.




>From: Stanley E Yoder <syoder+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Re:  Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial
>Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
>
>     Excerpts from mail: 30-Jul-99 Leica Users digest V10 #53 by Leica
>Users digest@mejac
> > Except 1/5 second, which sounds like 1/25. If I move the slow speed dial 
>to
> > just before the 1/5 indent, I get what sounds like 1/5th.
>
>     Guido, my IIIF RD has exactly the same syndrome: to get 1/5 I have
>to set it off the detent ever so slightly in the direction of 1/2sec.
>     I have no idea why this is, but since we both know what to do about
>it, why bother to send it off for repair?
>     Also, the self-timer on mine has seized up. I know what to do about
>that too - I don't use it!
>     Actually, it is a little comforting to know that I'm not alone with
>the 1/5. But it's no big sweat.
>
>     While, I'm on, here's one: my 50/2 LTM Summicron yields slides
>slightly-but-noticeably warmer than my other LTM lenses. I'm running a
>test now using an 82A filter to cool things off a couple hundred deg.K.
>Anyone else have this? (Change the subject head if you reply.)
>Stan Yoder
>Pittsburgh


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