Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Omega D 2 Enlarger & Polaroid MP 3
From: Akhil Lal <alal@duke.poly.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:08:54 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Austin Franklin wrote:

> > I had a close look at the D2 and the head seems to be a bit tight on the
> > column - it does not slide up and down easily.
> 
> Did you loosen the knob?


Yes !
 
> > Is it easy to lubricate the
> > tapes ?
> 
> I believe you can get new ones if you want, they are still available (or at
> last were, a short time ago).

This is useful info.
 
> > There is also no crank to move the head on the column. Wonder if
> > there ever was one.
> 
> Not on mine.

Thanks to this list I learned that there are two versions:the early one
without and the later series with crank.

> Good find!

For once !

Regards,
Akhil