Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/11/01 5:15 PM, Tom Schofield at tdschofield@email.msn.com wrote: > Leica USA Parts sent a couple out to me free last week. I figure they see > it as good PR and probably not worth the expense of issuing and tracking an > invoice. I have had free stuff from Leica UK too. It depends a lot on how you approach them and who you get to talk to. If you get through to the guy in the workshop and he has some stuff lying around that's not worth putting an invoice on you're quite likely to get it free. Red dots and little itty bits. If you go through the front desk... nada. When I lost my baseplate the workshop guy did a huge search to see if he could find some used baseplate to save me buying new. I really appreciated that. Back to the post: try calling through to the workshop and see if they have any used rewind cranks hanging around. Those places are full of disassembled leicas so you just might get lucky. Who knows? Can't hurt to ask. Leica UK and Metz/Hasselblad UK have both been really exemplary in repair and spares for me. Resurrected stuff I thought I had killed completely. With both of them, actually turning up in person can get the job done fast and well. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com