Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, I did not wish to sound arrogant but loading my 111G so far has been very trouble free the way I have been doing without trimming the leader anymore than it already is. I might add that I have all my life had a very delicate touch with mechanical things and I don't break things: formula race cars, many years and thousands of laps with very rare breakage; ocean single handed sailing, thousands of miles in the Atlantic in all kinds of weather and nothing has ever broken; my Nikons, have never seen service; my MAC always boots up. So, with all due respect to you and Marc and Sherry some people are born klutzes and some are blessed with the 'touch'. Loading a Leica LTM could be tricky but if I were to 'feel' something amiss I would stop and try a different way. I suspect that the 4" trim rule came from Leitz antiquity where a Leica 'born klutz' engineer probably had fat fingers. Steve Annapolis - ---------- >From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Loading LTM >Date: Fri, Mar 3, 2000, 10:12 AM > > I know how Marc and Sherry feel. An expert just cannot get any respect in > their hometown. Many times I have told my customers to do (or not to do) > something and they have given me that laughing, knowing smile. I wish I > could say they were as cheerful later on. I glad to hear that you have had > the camera so long that you can disregard advice from people who have > decades of experience and are trying to do you a favour! > > John Collier > > >> From: "steve lehuray" <icommag@toad.net> >> >> Marc, >> I appreciate the warning, which I have also gotten from Sherry Krauter and >> she threatened me with charging me double to clean out the film chips when >> the 111G jams up because I have not done the trimming thing. But the way >> that I have been loading it has been so simple and trouble free I have had >> no motive to try trimming the leader. BTW, I have two M's and several Nikons >> but I really love using this LTM even with the dual eyepieces which is very >> easy to adapt to. It's a jewel and I am glad I bought it a few months ago. >> Steve >> Annapolis >> >> ---------- >>> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> >>> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Loading LTM >>> Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2000, 2:10 PM >>> >> >>> At 11:35 AM 3/2/2000 -0500, Skip Williams wrote: >>>> I never cut my leaders, and I don't have any problem loading my IIIx >>>> Leicas. It's just one more hassle and anal thing, as far as I'm >>>> concerned. (and god knows, I have enough anal habits as it is!) >>> >>> Well, if you don't trim the leader, you run a fairly substantial risk of >>> having a bit of the leader chip off on a gear and work its way into your >>> camera's innards, requiring professional assistance to get it out again. >>> >>> Marc >>> >>> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >>> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >>> >