Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: alignment tool, was <Walt, you are dead wrong>
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:50:17 -0600 (CST)

I'd reply bullshit, but I don't want to continue this thread.
I'd say let Jim work on all the damn finders, NOW who seems 
obsessed with the thing?
Walt

On Sat, 4
Nov
2000, Jim Brick wrote:

> At 12:05 PM 11/4/00 -0500, Dan Cardish wrote:
> >Walt, now that we have definitively and forever determined that it is not
> >necessary to remove the top plate ever, ever, ever, is removing the top
> >plate and adjusting the vertical alignment a job that can be done by the
> >non-technically minded among us, as an alternative to getting this special
> >tool that Jim has?   
> >
> >Dan C.
> 
> Dan,
> 
> The "peg hole and eccentric slot" that is used for adjusting the vertical
> alignment doesn't go away by removing the top plate. It still requires the
> special tool, unless someone wants to "kludge" something up to work. Not me
> though as it is a very specialized adjustment mechanism and is best served
> by using the exact tool that the designers intended.
> 
> Jim
>