Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alf, If you can find old LTM and M bodies to take apart, do it.In the late 80's I picked up a bunch of LTM's from a dealer (40 in all), they were all in rotten shape, but i spent month dissasembling them and trying to reassemble them. All in all I got about 25 working cameras going as well as a large plastic bag with parts left over. The working cameras become christmas cards/present for friends and early rapidwinder customers in 1988 and the parts were donated to other Leica "dissasemblers". great fun and it also gives you an idea of how well designed the Leica's are. Very little superflous parts and incredible complex viewfinders. Even today i think the M6 viewfinder contains almost 1/3 of the total parts in the camera. You can spent a lot of evenings dissecting the camera and trying to get it together too.The lenses I have never managed to do, I have managed to get them apart, but so far they have never gotten back together properly! There are certain times when you admit defeat and send the parts to someone who knows and other times when all the pieces go into a plastic bag and stuck in the back of a drawer, never to see daylight again. Tom A