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Subject: [Leica] Aperture wear or oily? (With photos)
From: mknawabi.lug at gmail.com (Yama Nawabi)
Date: Wed Feb 4 23:36:36 2009
References: <4989E3B7.7000603@gmail.com> <000f01c98753$6956a090$3c03e1b0$@net>

Oh, I've shot it plenty. I love the thing...It's just that I'm selling 
it off to get another lens, and one of the buyers asked me whether or 
not it was oil.

Thanks for your input

-Yama

Frank Filippone wrote:
> I sold a lens to a guy in Japan.... He sent it to some techie-Lab in Tokyo.
> They ( literally) took it apart to check it out.  Their conclusion was that
> it should be returned to me because it was not new.
>
> The lens was 40 years old and was cleaned by Van Stelten about 4 months
> before I sold it.
>
> The guy never shot the lens.
>
> He was really nasty in the dealings.  I returned all his money.  I also
> black balled him from ever buying something from me again.  I don't like
> whiners......  
>
> Shoot the lens, then decide if you want to keep it.......
>
> Yes, it looks like oil.
>
> Shoot the lens, then decide if you want to keep it.......
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from mknawabi.lug at gmail.com (Yama Nawabi) ([Leica] Aperture wear or oily? (With photos))
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