Re: [Leica] Re: Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Guido-
Give them a chance to make it right. They are not highly touted for doing
faulty work, if they are highly reputable they got that way for a reason.
Any respectable repair person would rather have the opportunity to set
things right than to have the bad reputation.
Dan

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Guido Soprano <guidosoprano@hotmail.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial


> Hi Stan,
>
> thanks for your response, sharing my pain :=)
>
> Normally, I would just live with it. But...mine just came back from a
highly
> respected (by this list, at least) independent Leica Service station
(whose
> name shall not be provided, to protect the guilty), after a $180 (plus
> packing & shipping) CLA. Before it went, 1/5 was fine, all I wanted done
was
> to have the wind mechanism lubed so it was lighter on the thumb.
>
> Should I send it back, ask for my money back, send it somewhere else, or
> some combination? Opinions welcomed.
>
> So, we have a made-in-the-50's camera, when, according to some on this
list,
> Leica could only produce perfection, serviced by one of the best for about
> 1/3 the value of the camera...and it doesn't work right. I'm pissed, just
> not sure where to direct it :=(
>
> Guido the poorly timed.
>
>
>
>
> >From: Stanley E Yoder <syoder+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >Subject: [Leica] Re:  Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial
> >Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >     Excerpts from mail: 30-Jul-99 Leica Users digest V10 #53 by Leica
> >Users digest@mejac
> > > Except 1/5 second, which sounds like 1/25. If I move the slow speed
dial
> >to
> > > just before the 1/5 indent, I get what sounds like 1/5th.
> >
> >     Guido, my IIIF RD has exactly the same syndrome: to get 1/5 I have
> >to set it off the detent ever so slightly in the direction of 1/2sec.
> >     I have no idea why this is, but since we both know what to do about
> >it, why bother to send it off for repair?
> >     Also, the self-timer on mine has seized up. I know what to do about
> >that too - I don't use it!
> >     Actually, it is a little comforting to know that I'm not alone with
> >the 1/5. But it's no big sweat.
> >
> >     While, I'm on, here's one: my 50/2 LTM Summicron yields slides
> >slightly-but-noticeably warmer than my other LTM lenses. I'm running a
> >test now using an 82A filter to cool things off a couple hundred deg.K.
> >Anyone else have this? (Change the subject head if you reply.)
> >Stan Yoder
> >Pittsburgh
>
>
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