[Leica] V35 color head question

["Gary and Dawn Klein" <gdklein@bytehead.com>]

Dear Luggers,

I have a color head for my V35 that survived the flood that my basement had
in the big Sheboygan flood of  august 1998.  Very fortunately, the enlarger
did not get wet.  But as the color head was at a lower level in a separate
box, it did get wet.

I cleaned and dried the head as best as I could.  The only thing that I can
see with the color head at present is that one of the colored glass "gels"
(for lack of a better term) seems to be damaged.  I would assume that Leica
still will repair this item.  Or would any of the other Leica specialists
work on this item?  I suspect it will not be terribly expensive as it did
not spend a long time in the 18 inches of water that my basement endured.
Fortunately insurance covered replacing the really big ticket items such as
the furnace (I had sewer back up insurance and have since installed a sump
pump and a anti sewer backup valve for added protection).

A interesting point of the flood.  When I was covering the aftermath of
ground zero, I bumped into a poor old guy in his 70s that lost his ENTIRE
basement's foundation.  When I went to photograph him, he looked at my
Canons and sneered, "You want to see a real camera?"  I humored the guy and
said yes, as you never know what you will see.  I go into this poor guy's
house and now mind you, he has had  3 feet of water on the first floor.  But
not above high point of a dresser he has.  Opened it up and pulled out a
Leicaflex SL and an M4.  This guy was so happy that his Leicas were still
intact.  This guy lost his foundation to his home, had most of his
possessions destroyed by flood waters and most thrilled that his Leicas were
not damaged!  These were not collector Leicas, they were definitely user
cameras.

cheers

gck