Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's also a pretty good Johnny Cash song, "One Piece at a Time." Or does that have to do with the Dick (sic) Cheney posting a moment ago? Max ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Hurst" <corkflor@iol.ie> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:38 PM Subject: [Leica] Spare parts story.... > Vick, Doug and I wrote: > >>Vick:> I'll give you my address; can you send them to me? >>> >>> Or better, continue to work on your other Leica's, and eventually, >>> you'll collect enough parts to build an >>> additional one ! >> >>> :-) >> >>Doug: I believe this was written with tongue in cheek but it's really >>close to how I'm building my Leicaflex SL fleet >> > ;-) > >>Vick: >Just remember - the craftsmen at Leitz were not magicians, merely >>very >>>skilled. Whatever they assembled, can be disassembled, serviced, and >>>reassembled. >> >>Alex: But what do I do with the bits that are left over?.............. :-) >> > > Reminds me of the story of the guy in the German perambulator (baby > buggy?) factory in 1938. > > His wife was expecting, so he smuggled out all the parts to assemble at > home, and present his beloved with a brand new buggy when she produced. > > Eventually he thought he'd got all the parts. That evening his wife came > in. > > "How goes it with the pram?" > > Her husband scratched his head, and said: > > "Strange, but whichever way I assemble it, I end up with a machine gun". > > Ouch! So it goes....... > > > Best > > alex > -- > Alex Hurst > Waterfall > Nr. Cork > Ireland > > Tel: +353 214 543 328 (H) > +353 214 270 907 (W) > > Fax: +353 214 271 248 > email: corkflor@iol.ie > Also: corkflor.2@virgin.net (when in the UK, which isn't often) > Home website: http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor/ > Business website: http://www.corkflorists.com/ > > Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) public key available at: > http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 > ID: 0x5BB72019 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information