[Leica] Re: leica durability? my posterior! (what is it? caught in the mosh!)

[Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>]

2002-06-10-13:20:55 Kyle Cassidy:
> i swear that thing is made out of aluminum.

So would I.  Clever johnnies, those Leica fellows -- make the rewind
know out of a material which will deform so easily under a good whack
that its edge bottoms out on the camera body beneath before it has
a chance to put hard-to-repair stresses on the shaft it's connected
to.  Kind of like a good car -- it crumples so you don't have to.

The knob's easily replaced; held with one screw.  In the meantime, if
it makes you dizzy to look at it, look somewhere else.  Or go whole
hog and paint a mesmerising spiral pattern on it.
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