Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My curtain replacement took two weeks at Pro Camera Service, Thousand Oaks CA. It took that long because Klaus is semi-retired and comes in at the end of the week. Slobodan Dimitrov Jeff S wrote: > > Unfortunately, that will be an expensive repair: John Van Stelton tells me > that he pretty much has to remove every last screw to replace the shutter > curtains. He charges about $300 and takes a few months to do the job. Larry > Lyells had a quicker technique but it involved reusing part of the old > shutter curtain assembly-probably not a good idea at this late date. > > JVS was fabricating curtains out of new material and that probably makes > more sense than finding NOS Leica parts, which are now 40 years old. > > I have not seen any really effective means of patching rubberized cloth. >