Re: [Leica] Walt, you are dead wrong

["Mark Rutledge" <markrut@ticnet.com>]

I'm going with Walt on this one. He has worked on more Leica's than most
will see in our lifetimes. He just adjusted my M6 and showed me why it was
preferable to remove the top plate. The adjustment is glued in place. I'm
sure you could stick a tool in that little hole and adjust it, but hell you
can drive a screw w/ a hammer too.

Mark Rutledge
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brick" <jim@brick.org>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:33 PM
Subject: [Leica] Walt, you are dead wrong


> >
> >At 01:33 PM 03-11-00 -0600, Walter S Delesandri wrote:
> >[snip]
> >>
> >>I stand by my statement that to adjust the RF you SHOULD take the top
off..
> >>I've done two in two weeks that way....
> >>
> >>Just because someone came up with a kludged tool AFTER THE FACT that
> >>CAN (?) adjust the RF doesn't mean it was designed that way.....hell,
> >>I know all kind of ways to cheat on cameras, cars, audio, etc.....but
> >>then, how could I >PROVE< what engineers were thinking 20 years ago?
> >
>
> Well Walt, you are dead wrong. Still and again. I was taught by Leica
(Ernst
> Hartmann) how to do it and I have the special LEICA MADE tool, which is a
very
> tiny eccentric on the end of a shaft, which fits into a slot. This is
under
> the
> red dot. A little fiddly and delicate, but simple.
>
> Following is part of the invoice for the tool, scanned and OCR'ed so I
could
> include it here, purchased from Leica NJ and delivered from Solms:
>
> LEICA USA
> 156 LUDLOW AVE.
> NORTHVALE, NJ
>
> BRICK       6/11/99   ASAP     PREPAID
>
> ITEM DESCRIPTION
> 150000001279    ADJ. RF M4P,M6
>
> As you can see, it is the same tool they used on the M4P BEFORE the M6 was
> invented.
>
> So, let's hear it again... you have to do what to adjust the M4P & M6 RF?
This
> is what I was talking about. Bogus information being disseminated on the
LUG.
>
> Jim
>
>