Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]USE HEAT! The heat from a soldering iron should be sufficient to soften up the cement in the finder housing. Phil Forrest On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:35:41 -0500 Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote: > Judging from examining one, I think you are right. > > I need to sacrifice one. So, I'll get out the files and saws. > > Vick > > > On 1/11/2011 11:32 PM, Phil Forrest wrote: > > I believe the optical elements are cemented inside the housing. > > I read somewhere that between DAG and John Van Stelten, the success > > rate of cleaning the finders that were cemented then rebuilding > > them was alarmingly low. Not something like 20% but a failure rate > > of maybe 1 in 10 or more. Still a large number of non-repairables. > > That is just hearsay though from the internet (so you know it has > > to be true... ;) ) > > > > Phil Forrest > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information