Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:07 PM 2/15/96 EST, you wrote: >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. >--------------------------------------- >Gand Huang >LT Bell Laboratories, an AT&T company >200 Laurel Ave. 3B-216 >Middletown, NJ 07748 >U. S. A. >(908)957-3524 >--------------------------------------- > Hi all, I had my M6 repaired and rangefinder realigned. I saw the repairman remove the Leitz red disc to do this. When the job was completed, he merely place the original Leitz red disc back over the hole. I did not get a new Leica red disc. Dan <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>