Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, I too am quite light on equipment so I understand what you mean. However, every now and then, The "Hand Of G**" strikes me down and I have learned to take all reasonable precautions. I know that you must have prepared and maintained your boats carefully and I am the same way with my cars. If you do what should be done then, surprisingly to some people, everything goes well. I think of the leader trimming advice as this kind of prep. John Collier > From: "steve lehuray" <icommag@toad.net> > > 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! >>>> >>