RE: [Leica] now tools...

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

They all turn bolts and screws, some are just preferred for the way they
feel.  Others garner a loyalty or cult-like following.  
In the hands of a mechanic either tool will fix a car, in the hands of a
lesser person, the car remains broken.  Personally, I don't think the driver
cares what the mechanic uses, as long as the car gets fixed.  Hence the
reason that readers of periodicals don't really care if you are using a
Contax, Leica, Nikon, Canon or Vivitar camera to take the photo, only that
its there.

Peter K

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From: InfinityDT@aol.com [mailto:InfinityDT@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 3:21 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] now tools...


The Leica of tools is Snap-On...expensive, exquisite, precision to the nth 
degree and made to work hard and last a lifetime.  My father had a set of 
Snap-On socket wrenches and after more than 50 years of hard use the sockets

were not gored anywhere and the ratchet worked like new...but the parts were

still available to rebuild it if it had failed.  If someone hadn't helped 
themselves to the set I'd have it today.  My own set dates back to the early

70's...my friends all thought I was crazy to spend that much, especially 
because I wasn't a "professional".   "Buy Sears Craftsman" they said.  
Craftsman is the Nikon of tools.  Tough, gets the job done maybe just as 
well, but it just doesn't feel quite the same.  The Snap-Ons made me *feel* 
like a master, and the attitude boost helped the results.  The same is true 
of the Leica, for me.  So does the tool make a difference?  I think it does.

DT