Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had the oppotunity to buy a set of M body wrenches from Roger Pelham. It is truly a field kit. Slobodan Dimitrov Marc Attinasi wrote: > > Leicas have a reputation for being readily 'field serviceable'. I have > read of war photogs carrying their Leicas around in plastic bags - the > parts that is - until they have time to put them back together. In fact > that was one of the early appeals of the Leica, beyond the diminutive > size: a user could readily disassemble, clean, and reassemble the > camera in a trench or foxhole even. Not the rangefinder I think, but > the lenses and transport portions, certainly. > > I have never tried, nor needed, to repair a Leica body, but I have > managed to lube up and do minor repairs on other, similarly simple, > cameras. Anyway, it is fun and interesting, as Austin pointed out. > > - marc > > p.s. what is a 'tyro'? > > On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 09:00 PM, Austin Franklin wrote: > > > > >> Where do these Leica tyros get these "do it yourself" ideas? > >> > >> Jerry > > > > Jerry, > > > > If someone wants to try to repair something they own, then that is > > their > > decision. The worst they will do is ruin the item, and hopefully learn > > something. The best they will do is fix the item, and hopefully learn > > something. And any degree of repair in-between, but the point is, they > > learn something. Why denigrate someone for wanting to learn something? > > > > Every person who has any experience repairing things learned somehow, > > and > > the learning process involves making mistakes. How do you know this > > guy is > > a Leica tyro, he may have been using Leicas for years. > > > > Some mistakes are costlier than others, no doubt, and typically, it's > > a good > > idea to learn on a junker. Some people enjoy fixing things > > themselves, and > > if they can do it successfully, good for them. If they make a > > mistake, and > > they have to pay someone else to fix their mistake, that's their > > choice...and again, they learn something from it, and it might deter > > them > > from embarking on such a venture in the future. > > > > Regards, > > > > Austin > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html