Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob: I have a set in front of me. They consist of 9 paint sticks in the colours black, orange, silver, gold, green, red, blue, yellow, and white. They will paint right over the existing markings if you wished to change the colour of an engraved marking. I have used them on my older Leica lenses to spiffy them up. Regards, Robert At 09:49 AM 9/25/99 -0400, Bob Keene/Karen Shehade wrote: >Hey group- > >can these pens be used to "whiten" the green numbering on Hasselblad >lenses? I'm always annoyed in dim light that I can't see my distances.... > >bob Keene > >> >>Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:48:56 -0500 >>From: Mark Newport <newport_m@utpb.edu> >>Subject: Re: [Leica] White Stuff for the Numbers on Lenses >> >>>I've gotten beautiful old 35 Summicron-R that makes incredibly nice >>>pictures. But the white numbers have become so dull with age that I can >>>hardly read them. Is there a source for white paint to refill the engraved >>>numbers? And is there a technique for doing it? I know I could send it to >>>DAG, but I'd like to do it myself. >> >>This place: >>http://www.micro-tools.com/ >> >>used to have paint pens to fix that lettering. Check them out. >> >> >>Newp > > >