Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:49 PM 7/28/03 -0700, Martin Howard wrote: > >The point then becomes, *why* it is necessary >to have gears that last 1,000,000 frame advances at the price of the >smoothness and articulation of that action, when few people are going >to use it that much? Why not offer steel gears as an option for those >who really need it? The reason, give by Leitz in the early 1980's, was that they felt that they had had too many complaints from owners, especially professionals, over failures of the bronze gears. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html