Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/14
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Thank you very much.
Bill
Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
Bill,
If you can pick up the camera and listen to the shutter that will tell
you about half of what can go wrong. Next, take a look at the
rangefinder, if the patches are bright and they move when you focus a
lens then not much is wrong that can not be fixed with a CLA.
Last, smell the camera. If you get normal metal and lubricant smell
with not mold, mildew, or chemical odors then probably you are looking
at a camera that has been used for forty years.
With a CLA and new leathers you will have a known quantity M2 in the
400 to 600 dollar range. I am quoting high as the worst case is that
the camera goes to one of the true Leica specialists in Hong Kong,
Japan, or the U.S.
Don
don.dory@gmail.com
On 7/14/05, Bill Smith wrote:
> B.D. ---Your suggestion is very good except Korea is the land of "No Money
> Back" (NMB). Among the 1,000 other things that sets this country apart
> from the rest of the modern world is NMB. Apparently the shopkeeper would
> "lose his face" (be disgraced) if he had to make a refund. So that's the
> big problem w/ this beat-up M-2.
>
> "B. D. Colen" wrote:Virtually everything could be shot. But that's
> unlikely. And maximum damage
> could be more than the value of an M2 in today's market. But, again, it's
> unlikely that's the case. I'd ask him for a $ back guarantee that nothing
> is
> wrong other than what's included in a CLA and recovering.
>
>
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