[Leica] R Repair

[scheng at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

Kindermann in Toronto (former Canadian Leica distributor) use to do  
all the servicing for old Leica gear for Leica USA at one point in  
time. They did the CLA on my M4P quickly (between Friday and Monday  
with pre-notification on my part) and reasonably priced as well as  
convert some R lens to 3-cam.

Gerry was the one who told me that my father-in-law's 2 well-used SL  
is not worth fixing because of the prism needs to be re-silvered (or  
replaced - minimum of CAD $400) much as he would like to do the work.  
It wasn't even worth it, according to him, to try to build one body  
out of the 2 because the pentaprism.

With the current exchange rate of USD to CAD, it would be pretty cheap  
for Kindermann to do the work.

Caveat is the work was done 5-6 years ago so I don't know the current  
service staff.

Regards,
Spencer

On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:12, Lloyd Westbrook wrote:

> Belongs to a friend,  says the shutter is locked.  Don't know s/n.  
> Probably hasn't been serviced in years.