[Leica] Reinhold Muller, Leica tech in Toronto Canada - kaput?

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This is very surprising (the part about Reinhold doing substandard work, not 
the part about Sherry badmouthing another repairman).  I haven't used him 
much 
but was always pleased with his work.  Not so Sherry--she never "butchered" 
anything, to be sure, but I was always unhappy with the wide tolerances in 
shutter speeds (I'm a camera repairman's worst nightmare: a customer with a 
high-end digital shutter tester) and did not appreciate the black tar she 
put around 
where the top plate laps the body casting, or her unesthetic vulcanite 
patches.  But she always returned my gear without any damage, not even to 
screw 
heads.  Personally I prefer Don, but I have one M that was overhauled by 
Gerry 
Smith at Kindermann and it was nearly as good a job as Don's.

Back to Reinhold, I remember reading somewhere on the 'net not long ago that 
somebody wanted some Leica part and said that Reinhold was going to Germany 
soon and could pick it up...perhaps that's what the deal is.



In a message dated 03/24/2004 2:15:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
timatherton@theedge.ca writes:
On two occassions I had less than spectactular work done by him. 
The worst - the camera came back from service prior to a mjaor trip 
with an additional "gouge" on the front plate where the red dot had 
obviously been levered off - it' sill there - (it had not been replaced 
with a new one but had been gouged as well). Half way through the 
owrk trip this M6 completeley seized up and was unusable fro the 
rest of the six weeks I was away. On sending to Sherry Krauter she 
wondered who had buthchered the insides? (apparently she had 
only ever seen this problem with a few others before) and she very 
clearly put it down to whoever had worked on the camera before 
(which had been the only prior work on the camera). It took another 
$250.00 to fix.

So I woukdn't be suprised if he is out of business.

tim