RE: [Leica] Getting film into the film gate in M6

["Lee, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca>]

Yikes! 

Try trimming the film to make the leader longer, at least past the kink.  

Jonathan Lee

- -----Original Message-----
From: Chandos Michael Brown [mailto:cmbrow@wm.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:19 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Getting film into the film gate in M6


I say use a dremel tool with a coarse grinding wheel.  The improvement will 
be greater, and the metal filings will be easier to spot than sand.

Chandos




At 09:57 AM 8/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I would not willingly put sand in my Leica regardless of how careful I
might
>be. I know you mean sandpaper but the grit/sand comes off the sandpaper.
For
>now, just flip open the back and wiggle it past the film gate.
>
>John Collier
>
> > From: "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF]" <onguyen@pica.army.mil>
> >
> > can the film guide be sand into a round shape, this way, it won't catch
the
> > film ?