Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Marc James Small wrote: > At 01:56 PM 8/1/1999 -0400, Edward Meyers, Esteemed individual, good > friend, wrote: > >But I witnessed the "putting together" of M bodies in the > >Wetzlar works in 1962 and 1966. Parts were actually fitted > >precisely from a number of slightly different sizes. hand fitted > >is the term to use. This was something I was shown to indicate > >high quality of product. It's what gave the products their > >reputation (at least some of it). > > > Did they show you the wooden hammers which they used to make the parts fit? > I understand Hasselbald still uses these. Leica, by going to outside > suppliers, has obviated the need for such wooden hammers! > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > Do you mean that they now use steel hammers? Ed