Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/16

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To: Gang Huang <gang@mtdcr.mt.att.com>, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: M6 red disc switch
From: dkhong@pacific.net.sg (D Khong)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:12:03 +0800

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>