Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Vulcanite
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:39:38 -0700

The standard repair is to fit the stick on covering. $400US is about 
right for Leica to do a CLA and fit a stick on cover. Independent 
repair places usually come in lower.

John Collier

On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote:

>
>> the complete shell. As far as I know, NOS shells for M3/2/4 cameras 
>> are still available. When I recovered my M2 I was quoted $500 for the 
>> part alone. I choose
>
> I don't know John. I cracked my M4 shell royally a couple of years 
> back. I sent it to Solms and they did a wonderful job. I really don't 
> think they just repaired the shell, I've looked and looked and cannot 
> find a trace of it ... but maybe they did. I'm pretty sure I got 
> another shell, if it was a "new" one or one they had lying around from 
> a camera that was wasted in some other respect, I don't know. But they 
> sure did a nice job for ... around 400 USD (and that included the 
> works. I let them go over the whole camera as long as it was in ... 1 
> year warranty and all).

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