Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/15

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To: Charles Dharapak <cdhrpk@pipeline.com>, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: M6 red disc switch
From: Gang Huang <gang@mtdcr.mt.att.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 12:07:49 EST

At 08:00 AM 2/15/96 -0500, Charles Dharapak wrote:
>This ever happen to anyone? 
> 
>Back in October I brought my Wetzlar M6 (really early, no strap protectors)
>over to the Leica USA headquarters in New Jersey and asked them to check if
>the rangefinder was aligned. The technician disappeared with it and came
>back in about 15 minutes and gave it back to me, saying that everything
>should be fine now, and didn't charge me for the service (I was picking up
>something else that was being serviced at the time). 
> 
>Usually I have the red disc and white lettering taped over with gaffers
>tape. The other day I peeled off the tape and to my surprise, the red
>"Leitz" disc on my Wetzlar M6 was now a "Leica" disc. My camera has not
>been handled by anyone else, which leads me to believe that the Leica
>technicians had replaced it with a new disc without telling me. 
> 
>I'm not really particular about such things, but I found it to be a bit
>odd. 
> 
>Any comments, ideas?  
> 

On M2/M3/M4, there is a hole at the same place where the M6 has a red disc.
The vertical alignment adjustment screw of the RF is right beneath the hole,
and can be reached by inserting a small screw driver through the hole. This
hole is cover by a screw on the M2-M4, and I believe, on the M6 (which I
don't own), it is covered by the non-reusable plastic disc. Since the
technician adjusted the RF, he had to remove the disc and replaced it with a
new one.
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