Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/23

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Subject: [Leica] Vaseline & Leica, a good combination?
From: leicamshooter at yahoo.com (G Medina)
Date: Sat Jul 23 07:46:51 2005
 
Andrew Nemeth writes:

"Occasionally a tiny smear of Vaseline on the detent
knobs at the rear of the lens barrel cylinder will
help keep the mechanism smooth and reliable for
hundreds of clicks."

My question is does anyone do this periodically, and
how does one know when one should bring out the
vaseline? I've also heard a reference to vaseline in
the a Leica M book that came out recently. In the book
the author was making a reference to using vaseline on
the lens mount. I wonder if regular house hold
vaseline is adequate? 

Thanks for your comments.




                
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