Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/23

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Subject: Re: Ideal second "M" body
From: Welch <Bill.Welch@pressroom.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:31:28 -0800

Same thing happened to the rewind mechanism on my M6, about 2 years ago.

Bill Welch



Phil Payne wrote:
>   On both occasions, it seems I tapped or
> hit the part of the rewind knob that protrudes on the left end of the
> camera and bent the rewind spindle.  In both cases, the result was the
> same - the next attempt to advance film succeeded only as far as there
> was slack in the cassette.
> 
> I was living in Germany at the time (in Hofheim/Ts) and dropped both
> cameras off at Leitz (in those days, in the 'new' Versandzentrum) for
> repair.  They said such things were rare but not unknown.