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Subject: [Leica] Looking for extension tube
From: len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:03:30 -0500
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Here is Dan Black's web site and contact info. He has an awful lot of  
stuff, mostly the older LTM gear and early M. I wouldn't be surprised  
if he had what you want. It might just take awhile for him to find it.
Len

<http://www.danblackleica.com/index.php>


On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Ric Carter wrote:

> thanks for looking
>
> ric
>
> On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
>
>> At 07:40 PM 3/3/2009, Ric Carter wrote:
>> >thanks anyway!
>>
>> Ric
>>
>> I did more digging but no joy:  no one gives the tube length.   
>> Lager suggests that the tube was shared between the various  
>> versions of this rig and that the difference was in the length of  
>> the legs.  I have only seen these in collections and have never  
>> used any of them, though somewhere I have a Japanese version for  
>> Leica from the 1950's.
>>
>> Even the catalogues have proven of no assistance.  I would suggest  
>> that you contact any of the following, as they probably have these  
>> in their personal collections and can measure the tube for you.  I  
>> do not have e-mails on any of them but can provide mailing  
>> addresses for several.
>>
>> Jim Lager               New Jersey?
>> Dan Black               Philadelphia
>> Randy Hooper            Lexington, KY
>> Emil Keller             upstate New York
>>
>> Seth can probably put you in touch with all of them.  Emil might  
>> be your best bet, as he worked for Ernst Leitz Wetalar before the  
>> War, then shifted to ELNY, served as the senior US Army agent at  
>> Wetzlar after the War, and then returned to ELNY.  He was a very  
>> close friend of Ernst Leitz II, Ludwig Leitz, and of Ernst Leitz III.
>>
>> I am an accumulator and a user and a student but these  
>> reproduction devices just have never been on my radar screens.   
>> You were correct to ask if I had knowledge of them, but you have  
>> completely caught me at a loss and the literature I have at hand  
>> simply fails to provide a length for the 1:1 tube.  <sigh>  Lager,  
>> Morgan and Morgan, the catalogues, und so weiter ....
>>
>> The original owner probably had a leak in his bathroom one night  
>> and found that the 1:1 tube made a perfect fit for the leaky part  
>> of the pipe.  I am certain that it is still there today, still  
>> doing its job, albeit not the job for which it was intended.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> msmall at aya.yale.edu
>> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>>
>>
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