Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/21

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Subject: Re: A Couple of Nasty Screws
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 22:31:43 -0500

At 05:24 PM 2/21/97 -0700, Ben Holmes wrote:

>Anyway, Eric Welch sent me a straight sided zoom finder marked Wetzlar. On
>the back there are four screws (the nasty ones I refered to earlier), two of
>which have been torn up pretty badly by a mean person with a screw driver
>that didn't fit. It looks as if the screws were exposed to the sweat of
>someone's brow and have rusted in place. The slot is destroyed, the threads
>are rusty and I'm at a loss.
>
>Anybody have a slick way of removing screws like this? The finder is a bit
>foggy, otherwise in okay shape. I'd like to open it up and see if it can be
>cleaned.

Well, you need a tool known to the US Army as a BFH ...

Marc

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